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History: Bureau of Public Roads, established effective July 1, 1918, by redesignation of Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, transferred to FWA by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, effective July 1, 1939, and redesignated Public Roads Administration.
25 Φεβ 2022 · History. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and its predecessor agencies have been directly engaged in the location, design, and construction of public roads, giving access to and through the National Parks, the National Forests, and other areas within the Federal domain since 1905.
In 1915, OPR's name was changed to the Bureau of Public Roads. The following year, federal aid was first made available to improve post roads and promote general commerce: $75 million over five years, issued through the BPR in cooperation with the state highway departments.
I was one of the lucky ones to come into the Bureau of Public Roads in its early stages. The Bureau had begun as the Office of Public Roads and Public Engineering in the Department of Agriculture and its principle activity was helping farmers build windmills, design drainage, etc.
With enactment of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, as it was then called, had the mission that would define it into the 21st century: the Federal-aid highway program.
Bureau of Public Roads, transferred from Department of Commerce, was functionally absorbed by FHWA, August 10, 1970. Predecessor Agencies: In the Department of Agriculture:
research program conducted by the federal government's Bureau of Public Roads (BPR). Road building early in the century resembled many fields in en-gineering that depended on empirically derived understandings of nature; these fields were "low technology" when compared with the science-based "high-tech" areas of chemistry and electricity ...
