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Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 Long title An Act to develop a national intermodal surface transportation system, to authorize funds for construction of highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transit programs, and for other purposes Nicknames ISTEA Enacted by the 102nd United States Congress Public law Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 102–240 Statutes at Large 105 Stat. 1914 Titles amended 15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade , 23 U.S.C.: Highways , 26 U.S.C.: Internal Revenue Code ,33 U.S.C.: Navigation and Navigable Waters ,49 U.S.C.: Transportation Introduced in the House as H.R. 2950 by Norman Mineta (D -CA ) on July 18, 1991Passed the House on October 23, 1991 (343-83 )Passed the Senate on October 31, 1991 (unanimous consent , in lieu of S. 1204 passed June 19, 1991 91-7 )Reported by the joint conference committee on November 27, 1991; agreed to by the House on November 27, 1991 (372-47 ) and by the Senate on November 27, 1991 (79-8 )Signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on December 18, 1991
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-240; ISTEA , pronounced Ice-Tea ) is a United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first U.S. federal legislation on the subject in the post-Interstate Highway System era.
Objective
The Act presented an overall intermodal approach to highway and transit funding with collaborative planning requirements, giving significant additional powers to metropolitan planning organizations . Signed into law on December 18, 1991 by President George H. W. Bush, it expired in 1997. It was preceded by the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 and followed by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21 ) in 1998, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) in 2005, and the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) in 2012. ISTEA also provided funds for the conversion of dormant railroad corridors into rail trails ; the first trail to be so funded was the Cedar Lake Regional Rail Trail , built in 1995 in Minneapolis , Minnesota.
High Priority Corridors
ISTEA defined a number of High Priority Corridors , to be part of the National Highway System . After various amendments from other laws, this is a list of the Corridors:
Name
Location
Notes
Corridor 1
North-South Corridor
Kansas City, Missouri to Shreveport, Louisiana
Interstate 49
Corridor 2
Avenue of the Saints Corridor
St. Louis, Missouri to St. Paul, Minnesota
Corridor 3
East-West Transamerica Corridor
Hampton Roads, Virginia to southern Kansas
Corridor 4
Hoosier Heartland Industrial Corridor
Lafayette, Indiana to Toledo, Ohio
Corridor 5
I-73/74 North-South Corridor
Georgetown, South Carolina to Cincinnati, Ohio , Detroit, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Corridor 6
United States Route 80 Corridor
Meridian, Mississippi to Savannah, Georgia
Corridor 7
East-West Corridor
Memphis, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee
Corridor 8
Highway 412 East-West Corridor
Tulsa, Oklahoma to Nashville, Tennessee
Corridor 9
United States Route 220 and the Appalachian Thruway Corridor
Bedford, Pennsylvania to Corning, New York
Interstate 99
Corridor 10
Appalachian Regional Corridor X
Corridor 11
Appalachian Regional Corridor V
Corridor 12
United States Route 25E Corridor
Corbin, Kentucky to Morristown, Tennessee
Corridor 13
Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor
Raleigh, North Carolina to Norfolk, Virginia
Interstate 87 (North Carolina-Virginia)
Corridor 14
Heartland Expressway
Denver, Colorado to Rapid City, South Dakota
Corridor 15
Urban Highway Corridor
M-59 in Michigan
Corridor 16
Economic Lifeline Corridor
I-15 and I-40 in California , Arizona , and Nevada
Corridor 17
Route 29 Corridor
Greensboro, North Carolina to Washington, D.C.
Corridor 18
Port Huron, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois , Corpus Christi, Texas and Victoria, Texas
Interstate 69
Corridor 19
United States Route 395 Corridor
Canada–US border to Reno, Nevada
Corridor 20
United States Route 59 Corridor
Laredo, Texas to Texarkana, Texas
Interstate 69
Corridor 21
United States Route 219 Corridor
Buffalo, New York to Interstate 80
Corridor 22
Alameda Transportation Corridor
ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Interstate 10
Corridor 23
Interstate Route 35 Corridor
Laredo, Texas to Duluth, Minnesota and the Canada–US border (via Interstate 29 )
Corridor 24
Dalton Highway
Deadhorse, Alaska to Fairbanks, Alaska
Corridor 25
State Route 168 (South Battlefield Boulevard)
Great Bridge, Virginia Bypass to the North Carolina state line
Corridor 26
CANAMEX Corridor
Nogales, Arizona to the Canada–US border
Corridor 27
Camino Real Corridor
El Paso, Texas to the Canada–US border
Corridor 28
Birmingham Northern Beltline
Birmingham, Alabama
Corridor 29
Coalfields Expressway
Beckley, West Virginia to Pound, Virginia
Corridor 30
Interstate Route 5
California , Oregon and Washington
Corridor 31
Mon–Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Corridor 32
Wisconsin Development Corridor
Dubuque, Iowa to Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Corridor 33
Capital Gateway Corridor
Washington, D.C. to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland
U.S. Route 50
Corridor 34
Alameda Corridor-East and Southwest Passage
East Los Angeles, California to Barstow, California and Coachella, California , and San Bernardino, California to Arizona
Corridor 35
Everett-Tacoma FAST Corridor
Everett, Washington to Tacoma, Washington
Corridor 36
NY-17
Harriman, New York to I-90 in Pennsylvania
Interstate 86
Corridor 37
United States Route 90
Lafayette, Louisiana to New Orleans, Louisiana
Interstate 49
Corridor 38
Ports to Plains Corridor
Laredo, Texas to Denver, Colorado
Interstate 27 (Lubbock, TX to Amarillo, TX )
Corridor 39
United States Route 63
Marked Tree, Arkansas to Interstate 55
Interstate 555
Corridor 40
Greensboro Corridor
Danville, Virginia to Greensboro, North Carolina
Interstate 785
Corridor 41
Falls-to-Falls Corridor
International Falls, Minnesota to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
Corridor 42
Batesville to Fulton, Mississippi
formed from portions of ADHS corridors V and X
Corridor 43
United States Route 95 Corridor
Eastport, Idaho to Oregon
Corridor 44
Louisiana Highway 1 Corridor
Grand Isle, Louisiana to U.S. Route 90
Corridor 45
United States Route 78 Corridor
Memphis, Tennessee to Birmingham, Alabama
Interstate 22
Corridor 46
Interstate Route 710
Long Beach, California to California State Route 60
Corridor 47
Interstate Route 87
Quebec to New York City
Corridor 48
Route 50 High Plains Corridor
Newton, Kansas to Pueblo, Colorado
Corridor 49
Atlantic Commerce Corridor
Jacksonville, Florida to Miami, Florida
Corridor 50
East-West Corridor
Watertown, New York to Calais, Maine
Corridor 51
SPIRIT Corridor
El Paso, Texas to Wichita, Kansas
Corridor 52
Swifton, Arkansas to Jonesboro, Arkansas
Corridor 53
United States Highway Route 6
Interstate 70 to Interstate 15
Corridor 54
California Farm-to-Market Corridor
south of Bakersfield, California to Sacramento, California
California State Route 99
Corridor 55
Dallas, Texas to Memphis, Tennessee
Corridor 56
La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor
Lamesa, Texas to Presidio, Texas
Corridor 57
United States Route 41 corridor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Green Bay, Wisconsin
Interstate 41
Corridor 58
Theodore Roosevelt Expressway
Rapid City, South Dakota to Raymond, Montana
Corridor 59
Central North American Trade Corridor
border between North Dakota and South Dakota to the Canada–US border
Corridor 60
Providence Beltline Corridor
Hope Valley, Rhode Island to Massachusetts
Corridor 61
various corridors in Missouri
Corridor 62
Georgia Developmental Highway System Corridors
various corridors in Georgia
Corridor 63
Liberty Corridor
various corridors in northern New Jersey
Corridor 64
various corridors in southern New Jersey
Corridor 65
Interstate Route 95 Corridor
Connecticut
Corridor 66
Interstate Route 91 Corridor
Connecticut
Corridor 67
Fairbanks-Yukon International Corridor
Canada–US border to Fairbanks, Alaska
Corridor 68
Washoe County corridor
Reno, Nevada to Las Vegas, Nevada
Corridor 69
Cross Valley Connector
Interstate 5 to State Route 14 , Santa Clarita Valley, California
Corridor 70
Economic Lifeline corridor
I-15 , I-40 and other roads in California , Arizona and Nevada
Corridor 71
High Desert Corridor
Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada
Corridor 72
North-South corridor
Kansas City, Missouri to Shreveport, Louisiana
Interstate 49
Corridor 73
Louisiana Highway corridor
Grand Isle, Louisiana to U.S. Route 90
Corridor 74
Lafayette, Louisiana to New Orleans, Louisiana
Interstate 49
Corridor 75
Louisiana 28 corridor
Fort Polk, Louisiana to Alexandria, Louisiana
Corridor 76
Toledo, Ohio to Cincinnati, Ohio
Corridor 77
Indiana to Toledo, Ohio
Corridor 78
Cincinnati, Ohio to Cleveland, Ohio
Corridor 79
Interstate Route 376
Monroeville, Pennsylvania to Sharon, Pennsylvania
Corridor 80
Intercounty Connector
Interstate 270 to Interstate 95 /U.S. Route 1 in Maryland
High-speed rail corridors
The high-speed corridors designated under ISTEA closely correspond with grants given under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act —seventeen years later.
The legislation also called for the designation of up to five high-speed rail corridors. The options were studied for several months, and announced in October 1992. The first four were announced by United States Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card , while the last was announced by Federal Railroad Administration head Gil Carmichael .[ 1]
October 15, 1992: The Midwest high-speed rail corridor with three links from Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan , St. Louis, Missouri , and Milwaukee, Wisconsin .
October 16, 1992: The Florida high-speed rail corridor linking Miami with Orlando and Tampa .
October 19, 1992: The California high-speed rail corridor linking San Diego and Los Angeles with the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento via the San Joaquin Valley .
October 20, 1992: The Southeast high-speed rail corridor connecting Charlotte, North Carolina , Richmond, Virginia , and Washington, D.C. .
October 20, 1992: The Pacific Northwest high-speed rail corridor linking Eugene and Portland, Oregon with Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada.
However, there was not significant funding attached to these announcements: $30 million had been allocated to several states by 1997 to improve grade crossings ,[ 2] but that was a very tiny amount in comparison to the billions required for a true high-speed network. Aside from a few places in California and the Chicago–Detroit Line , most areas outside the Northeast Corridor continued to be limited to 79 mph (127 km/h) until $8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was distributed in January 2010.[ 3]
Jeff Morales one of the principal drafters of this bill, is currently serving as CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority , which is currently constructing a high-speed rail line along the route originally proposed in this bill.[ 4]
Airbags
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 also mandated that passenger automobiles and light trucks built after September 1, 1998 to have airbags installed as standard equipment for the driver and the right front passenger.[ 5] [ 6]
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