Mass Transportation Survey plan, 1959

Following the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, highway departments in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia eagerly sketched plans for freeways throughout the region. National Capital Planning Commission chairman Harland Bartholomew did not object to their plans, but he did suggest a 33-mile rail rapid transit system (in orange) as a complement., U.S. National Capital Planning Commission, National Capital Regional Planning Council, Transportation Plan for the National Capital Region, 1959. DCPL.