ECTC picket sign, 1969

Groundbreaking, originally scheduled for the fall of 1968, was delayed for a year by William H. Natcher, chairman of the House Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations, who demanded that the District first begin work on an extensive freeway system. Citizen groups, such as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis, picketed what they saw as blackmail., ECTC Collection, Picket Signs, folder 1 DCPL.