Federal Aid Highway Transportation Systems Part 2
THE FEDERAL-AID SECONDARY OR "B" SYSTEM. Congress established the federal-aid secondary system in 1944 to supplement the federal-aid primary system. Originally it had both rural and urban facilities, made up primarily of important county and secondary state highways. Selection of the routes has been the joint responsibility of local authorities, the state highway departments, and the Federal Highway Administration. Today's system totals 396,000 mi, all rural.
FEDERAL-AID URBAN SYSTEM. Until World War II. construction and maintenance of streets and alleys were considered to be of local concern, and federal, state, and county spending was devoted almost exclusively to rural highways. As traffic in urban areas increased, more and more attention was focused on the problems it created; and federal, state, and sometimes county funds are now used to improve major routes in them. Federal participation began when Congress in 1944 authorized a special fund to aid in extending the rural federal- aid systems into urban areas. In 1970 it created a separate urban system consisting of important arterials that are not urban extensions of the rural system.
Routes are selected by local officials subject to state and federal approval. Beginning in 1975, some of these urban funds could be used for mass transit. This system now totals 126,000 mi.
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