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Rural roads face funding and policy crisis in 1980s
A USDA report titled Roads of Rural America warns that inadequate maintenance and sprawling low density rural road networks threaten farm transport to growing markets. Economists urge fewer better roads, higher fuel taxes tied to dollar value, and coordinated planning across local state and federal agencies. ON THIS DATE in 1974 President Nixon signed the 55 mph speed limit into law.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
America
United States
USDA
Economics, Statistics and Cooperatives Service
Arvin R. Bunker
T.Q. Hutchin
Jerry E. Fruin
Fruin
Richard Nixon