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. |