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The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-240; ISTEA, pronounced Ice-Tea) is a United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first U.S. federal legislation on the subject in the post-Interstate Highway System era. It presented an overall intermodal approach to highway and transit funding with collaborative planning requirements, giving significant additional powers to metropolitan planning organizations. Signed into law on December 18, 1991 by President George H. W. Bush, it expired in 1997. It was preceded by the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 and followed by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) and most recently in 2005, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). ISTEA also provided funds for non-motorized commuter trails; the first trail to be so funded was the Cedar Lake Regional trail in Minneapolis, MN, which was built in 1995.
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High Priority Corridors
ISTEA defined a number of High Priority Corridors, to be part of the National Highway System. After various amendments from other laws, this is a list of the Corridors:
Name Location Notes Corridor 1 North-South Corridor Kansas City, Missouri to Shreveport, Louisiana Interstate 49 Corridor 2 Avenue of the Saints Corridor St. Louis, Missouri to St. Paul, Minnesota Corridor 3 East-West Transamerica Corridor Hampton Roads, Virginia to southern Kansas Corridor 4 Hoosier Heartland Industrial Corridor Lafayette, Indiana to Toledo, Ohio Corridor 5 I-73/74 North-South Corridor Georgetown, South Carolina to Cincinnati, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Corridor 6 United States Route 80 Corridor Meridian, Mississippi to Savannah, Georgia Corridor 7 East-West Corridor Memphis, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee Corridor 8 Highway 412 East-West Corridor Tulsa, Oklahoma to Nashville, Tennessee Corridor 9 United States Route 220 and the Appalachian Thruway Corridor Bedford, Pennsylvania to Corning, New York Interstate 99 Corridor 10 Appalachian Regional Corridor X Corridor 11 Appalachian Regional Corridor V Corridor 12 United States Route 25E Corridor Corbin, Kentucky to Morristown, Tennessee Corridor 13 Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor Raleigh, North Carolina to Norfolk, Virginia Corridor 14 Heartland Expressway Denver, Colorado to Rapid City, South Dakota Corridor 15 Urban Highway Corridor M-59 in Michigan Corridor 16 Economic Lifeline Corridor I-15 and I-40 in California, Arizona, and Nevada Corridor 17 Route 29 Corridor Greensboro, North Carolina to Washington, D.C. Corridor 18 Port Huron, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois, Corpus Christi, Texas and Victoria, Texas Interstate 69 Corridor 19 United States Route 395 Corridor Canadian border to Reno, Nevada Corridor 20 United States Route 59 Corridor Laredo, Texas to Texarkana, Texas Interstate 69 Corridor 21 United States Route 219 Corridor Buffalo, New York to Interstate 80 Corridor 22 Alameda Transportation Corridor ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Interstate 10 Corridor 23 Interstate Route 35 Corridor Laredo, Texas to Duluth, Minnesota and the Canadian border (via Interstate 29) Corridor 24 Dalton Highway Deadhorse, Alaska to Fairbanks, Alaska Corridor 25 State Route 168 (South Battlefield Boulevard) Great Bridge, Virginia Bypass to the North Carolina state line Corridor 26 CANAMEX Corridor Nogales, Arizona to the Canadian border Corridor 27 Camino Real Corridor El Paso, Texas to the Canadian border Corridor 28 Birmingham Northern Beltline Birmingham, Alabama Corridor 29 Coalfields Expressway Beckley, West Virginia to Pound, Virginia Corridor 30 Interstate Route 5 California, Oregon and Washington Corridor 31 Mon-Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway Pennsylvania and West Virginia Corridor 32 Wisconsin Development Corridor Dubuque, Iowa to Eau Claire, Wisconsin Corridor 33 Capital Gateway Corridor Washington, D.C. to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland U.S. Route 50 Corridor 34 Alameda Corridor-East and Southwest Passage East Los Angeles, California to Barstow, California and Coachella, California, and San Bernardino, California to Arizona Corridor 35 Everett-Tacoma FAST Corridor Everett, Washington to Tacoma, Washington Corridor 36 New York and Pennsylvania State Route 17 Harriman, New York to I-90 in Pennsylvania Interstate 86 Corridor 37 United States Route 90 Lafayette, Louisiana to New Orleans, Louisiana Interstate 49 Corridor 38 Ports to Plains Corridor Laredo, Texas to Denver, Colorado Corridor 39 United States Route 63 Marked Tree, Arkansas to Interstate 55 Interstate 555 Corridor 40 Greensboro Corridor Danville, Virginia to Greensboro, North Carolina Interstate 785 Corridor 41 Falls-to-Falls Corridor International Falls, Minnesota to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Corridor 42 Batesville to Fulton, Mississippi formed from portions of ADHS corridors V and X Corridor 43 United States Route 95 Corridor Eastport, Idaho to Oregon Corridor 44 Louisiana Highway 1 Corridor Grand Isle, Louisiana to U.S. Route 90 Corridor 45 United States Route 78 Corridor Memphis, Tennessee to Birmingham, Alabama Interstate 22 Corridor 46 Interstate Route 710 Long Beach, California to California State Route 60 Corridor 47 Interstate Route 87 Quebec to New York City Corridor 48 Route 50 High Plains Corridor Newton, Kansas to Pueblo, Colorado Corridor 49 Atlantic Commerce Corridor Jacksonville, Florida to Miami, Florida Corridor 50 East-West Corridor Watertown, New York to Calais, Maine Corridor 51 SPIRIT Corridor El Paso, Texas to Wichita, Kansas Corridor 52 Swifton, Arkansas to Jonesboro, Arkansas Corridor 53 United States Highway Route 6 Interstate 70 to Interstate 15 Corridor 54 California Farm-to-Market Corridor south of Bakersfield, California to Sacramento, California Corridor 55 Dallas, Texas to Memphis, Tennessee Corridor 56 La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor Lamesa, Texas to Presidio, Texas Corridor 57 United States Route 41 corridor Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Green Bay, Wisconsin Corridor 58 Theodore Roosevelt Expressway Rapid City, South Dakota to Raymond, Montana Corridor 59 Central North American Trade Corridor border between North Dakota and South Dakota to the Canadian border Corridor 60 Providence Beltline Corridor Hope Valley, Rhode Island to Massachusetts Corridor 61 various corridors in Missouri Corridor 62 Georgia Developmental Highway System Corridors various corridors in Georgia Corridor 63 Liberty Corridor various corridors in northern New Jersey Corridor 64 various corridors in southern New Jersey Corridor 65 Interstate Route 95 Corridor Connecticut Corridor 66 Interstate Route 91 Corridor Connecticut Corridor 67 Fairbanks-Yukon International Corridor Canadian border to Fairbanks, Alaska Corridor 68 Washoe County corridor Reno, Nevada to Las Vegas, Nevada Corridor 69 Cross Valley Connector Interstate 5 to State Route 14, Santa Clarita Valley, California Corridor 70 Economic Lifeline corridor I-15, I-40 and other roads in California, Arizona and Nevada Corridor 71 High Desert Corridor Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada Corridor 72 North-South corridor Kansas City, Missouri to Shreveport, Louisiana Interstate 49 Corridor 73 Louisiana Highway corridor Grand Isle, Louisiana to U.S. Route 90 Corridor 74 Lafayette, Louisiana to New Orleans, Louisiana Interstate 49 Corridor 75 Louisiana 28 corridor Fort Polk, Louisiana to Alexandria, Louisiana Corridor 76 Toledo, Ohio to Cincinnati, Ohio Corridor 77 Indiana to Toledo, Ohio Corridor 78 Cincinnati, Ohio to Cleveland, Ohio Corridor 79 Interstate Route 376 Monroeville, Pennsylvania to Sharon, Pennsylvania Corridor 80 Intercounty Connector Interstate 270 to Interstate 95/U.S. Route 1 in Maryland High-speed rail corridors
The high-speed corridors designated under ISTEA closely correspond with grants given under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—seventeen years later.
The legislation also called for the designation of up to five high-speed rail corridors. The options were studied for several months, and announced in October 1992. The first four were announced by United States Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card, while the last was announced by Federal Railroad Administration head Gil Carmichael.[1]
- October 15, 1992: The Midwest high-speed rail corridor with three links from Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan, St. Louis, Missouri, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- October 16, 1992: The Florida high-speed rail corridor linking Miami with Orlando and Tampa.
- October 19, 1992: The California high-speed rail corridor linking San Diego and Los Angeles with the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento via the San Joaquin Valley.
- October 20, 1992: The Southeast high-speed rail corridor connecting Charlotte, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C..
- October 20, 1992: The Pacific Northwest high-speed rail corridor linking Eugene and Portland, Oregon with Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
However, there was not significant funding attached to these announcements: $30 million had been allocated to several states by 1997 to improve grade crossings,[2] but that was a very tiny amount in comparison to the billions required for a true high-speed network. Aside from a few places in California and the Chicago–Detroit Line, most areas outside the Northeast Corridor continued to be limited to 79 mph (127 km/h) until $8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was distributed in January 2010.[3]
References
- ^ "Chronology of High-Speed Rail Corridors". Federal Railroad Administration. Department of Transportation. July 7, 2009. http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/618. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
- ^ "CFS Report To Congress". High Speed Ground Transportation for America. Federal Railroad Administration. September 1997. pp. 1–4 (ch. 1). http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/515. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
- ^ Zach Rosenberg (February 1, 2010). "At Long Last, Clear Messages for High-Speed Rail". Autopia. Wired Blogs. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/high-speed-rail-grants/. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
External links
- H.R.2950 (Public Law No: 102-240) - corridors are in section 1105
- A Guide to Metropolitan Transportation Planning Under ISTEA - How the Pieces Fit Together (USDOT)
- FHWA - NHS High Priority Corridors
Major highway federal statutes in the United States Federal-Aid Highway Acts (1916–1987) · National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956) · Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act (1987) · Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (1991) · National Highway Designation Act (1995) · Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (1998) · Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (2005)
Categories:- United States federal transportation legislation
- United States railroad regulation
- 1991 in rail transport
- 1992 in rail transport
- 102nd United States Congress
- High-speed rail in the United States
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