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I propose that we eliminate the present bias in favor of highways, 
which operates to the detriment of all other transportation modes, and 
create instead a system which allows for a more rational and equitable dis- 
tribution of money and resources to all transportational modes. 
The main features of S. 1344 are as follows: 
@ It combines the revenues generated for the Highway Trust Fund 
and the Airport and Airways Development Trust Fund with funds from 
the Treasury equivalent to those now authorized for programs for mass 
transit and Federal-aid-to-highways. All specific transportation aid 
programs would be terminated on the date that the new Trust Fund is 
created, July 1, 1973. 
@ It directs the Secretary of Transportation to prepare a comprehen- 
sive national transportation development plan, which would include a 
formula for the allocation of mcnies from the Trust Fund to carry out 
the purpose of the Act, and a program for the coordinated development 
of all modes. 
@ It directs states to submit their own comprehensive transportation 
development plans, in order to receive allocations, thus giving them the 
opportunity to set their own priorities based on their own needs. 
@ It encourages regional planning and cooperation among individual 
states. 
@ It stipulates that the general public will have an opportunity to 
state its views before statewide plans are submitted. 
@® It requires that a single transportation agency be formed at the 
State level. That agency would develop comprehensive, multi-model 
plans, based, in turn, upon the recommendations of localities with pop- 
ulations over 50,000. States would have to review their plans every two 
years. 
The legislation I propose would help to correct our over-investment in 
one mode and under-investment in others. It would allow for the continua- 
tion of necessary road-building so vital to our rural areas, and it would en- 
able the urban areas to upgrade their public transportation systems. It 
would allow for the development of rapid rail transit, and for the im- 
provement of long-distance rail passenger service. It would result in less 
heavily congested roads, so motorists and bus riders alike would benefit. 
It would insure an element of planning in our development of future trans- 
portation networks, and give the public a greater voice in this planning 
process. 
Our present transportation system enables us to move only so far. 
Beyond a certain point, it forces us into a holding pattern—whether in the 
air or on the ground. 
I feel strongly that the general trust fund created by S. 1344 would 
make it possible to allocate funds rationally among transportation modes, 
allowing in each individual situation the mode which will most efficiently 
and effectively serve our need for mobility. This is an idea whose time has 
definitely arrived. I only need point to the recent support given the concept 
by a leading American industrialist and spokesman for the automobile in- 
dustry, Mr. Henry Ford, and by the support that a great union, the UAW, 
has also given it. 
Let us enact this legislation. 
