Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Transit Authority: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representatives Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 8901 and H.R. 8947, Bills to Provide for an Adequate and Economically Sound Transportation System Or Systems to Serve the District of Columbia and Its Environs ; to Create and Establish a Public Body Corporate with Powers to Carry Out the Provisions of this Act ; and for Other Purposes. February 20, 21, 23, March 1 and 8, 1956Considers legislation to establish the D.C. Metropolitan Transit Authority. Also reviews D.C. Board of Commissioners' efforts at finding private interests to administer D.C. transit system. |
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