1997•GoverningRequires access
PLAYING THE HIGHWAY GAME
J Walters
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Abstract
When it passed in 1991, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) was hailed as the dawning of a new transportation age: the end of the top-down, federally dominated Interstate highway era and the beginning of a more bottom-up, collaborative and intermodal approach to national transportation planning and policy. As reauthorization of ISTEA looms this year, discussion and analysis of the program is in large measure centered on its political and fiscal impacts: who gets how much money and who gets to control how that money is spent. The article reviews the original goals and attempts to focus on the actual impact of ISTEA on the nation's transportation systems over the four full years that it has been in effect.