ISTEA

The federal transportation act, known as ISTEA, and the

Installation Speech 1993

Over the past two decades, he has also worked with various highway safety organizations on the congressional reauthorization of the federal surface transportation program known as ISTEA, SAFETEA and SAFETEA-LU.

Maryland Politics Watch Adam Pagnucco 2010

The final bill, signed a week before Christmas, was called the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, or ISTEA.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

The coalition was going to need all the support it could get—another big reauthorization bill was coming up, a renewal of ISTEA, and this would be a crucial moment for I-69.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

Packard sat on both the Appropriations Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and had helped shape the 1991 transportation bill—ISTEA—that brought the interstate era to a close and established the high-priority corridors that would make up I-69.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

The Tokarskis soon learned that the final ISTEA bill contained an earmark for a new highway from Indianapolis, and that in fact the road had grown southward.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

Thanks to the machinations of a few legislators, I-69 had stuck a foot in the closing door that was ISTEA.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

She went to work helping shape I-69-friendly language in the National Highway System Designation Act, a law that would solidify the evolution in priorities foreshadowed by ISTEA.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

Just to get the ball rolling, ISTEA went ahead and identified a small group of “High Priority Corridors” and directed the secretary of transportation to include these in the new system.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

The Tokarskis offered their alternative in an essay sent to supporters shortly after the ISTEA legislation passed in late 1991.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010