NCTA proposed system, 1962

In March 1961, John F. Kennedy appointed Darwin Stolzenbach as administrator of the National Capital Transportation Agency. Stolzenbach was highly skeptical of the proposals for urban freeways, so he proposed an extensive, 83-mile rail network and a severly scaled down highway network., U.S. National Capital Transportation Agency, Transportation in the National Capital Region: Finance and Organization, 1962 DCPL.