Guide to "A Transportation Vision, Strategy, and Action Plan for the Nation's Capital" by Department of Public Works informational map C0429
"A Transportation Vision, Strategy, and Action Plan for the Nation's Capital" by Department of Public Works informational map
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Meghan Glasbrenner
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Preferred Citation
"A Transportation Vision, Strategy, and Action Plan for the Nation's Capital" by Department of Public Works informational map, C0429, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Donated to by Jeffry Haggquist and Heidi Worley circa 2015 or 2016.
Processing Information
Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in May 2024. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in June 2024.
Historical Information
Following Congress' enacting of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act on December 24, 1973 public works for D.C. were provided by four city agencies: The Department of Environment, the Department of General Services, the Department of Transportation, and the Office of Surveys. In April 1980, Mayor Marion Barry proposed merging these four agencies into a single agency known as the Department of Public Works, but it was not until December 1983, after the plan had been scaled back to include the merger of only the Department of Environment Services and the Department of Transportation, that the new Department of Public Works was created. Today the District of Columbia Department of Public Works (DPW) oversees solid waste and recyclables collection, street cleaning, parking enforcement, and governmental vehicle procurement, maintenance, and fueling.
Scope and Content
Double-sided informational map titled "A Transportation Vision, Strategy, and Action Plan for the Nation's Capital" published by the Washington, D.C. Department of Public Works introducing and describing a new strategic transportation plan for the District of Columbia. This 20-year strategic vision and action plan was created in part to fulfill Federal regulations requiring D.C. to have a regularly updated long-range transportation plan.
One side includes five columns of text detailing the strategic vision and action plan, as well as the title page for when the map is folded. The other side includes a map of the District of Columbia, with corresponding Legend, showing many of the specific actions detailed in the Action Plan on the reverse side and a small section at the bottom labeled "Conceptual Cross Sections" that represents ways these Action Plans could be implemented.
Arrangement
This is a single item collection.
Related Material
The Special Collections Research center holds other transportation collections including the William L. Mertz transportation collection and the Charles Lietwiler transportation collection .
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Transportation
- Transportation -- Planning
- Transportation -- United States -- Planning
- Transportation -- Washington Metropolitan Area -- Planning
- Urban transportation
- Washington (D.C.)
Bibliography
"District of Columbia Department of Public Works." 2023. In Wikipedia . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Department_of_Public_Works.
Moored, Ginger. 2011. "The Case for Streetcars." TheCityFix (blog). January 10, 2011. https://thecityfix.com/blog/the-case-for-streetcars/.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Between 14th and 15th Streets NW and Constitution Avenue, NW and Madison Drive, NW: Environmental Impact Statement . 2008. https://books.google.com/books?id=sis3AQAAMAAJ.