Urban Mass Transportation--1975, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of ..., 94-2 on S.662 ...,June 17, 18, and 19, 1975, Bände 22-23;Bände 68-975 |
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additional agencies amendment APTA bill Burlington bus system buses Chairman Chittenden County Cleveland Transit System committee communities Congress Coralville County Court DAST definition Delaware Department of Transportation District elderly and handicapped equipment Federal fully accessible funds GILSTRAP handi handicapped and elderly handicapped persons HERRINGER Highway implementation increase intercity bus Iowa City Jersey legislation mass transit Mass Transportation Act mass transportation facilities ment million mobility disabled needs of elderly operating assistance operating costs operating subsidies PAQUETTE passengers percent planning population portation Povlitz problems public mass transportation public transit public transportation rapid transit reduced fare require ride ridership right to travel routes rural areas Senator GARN Senator WILLIAMS Sherman W specialized transportation specific statement tion total accessibility trans transit operators transit service transit systems transit vehicles Transportation Authority transportation needs transportation system trips UMTA urban areas Urban Mass Transportation utilize wheelchair
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Seite 69 - It requires no argument to show that the right to work for a living in the common occupations of the community is of the very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that it was the purpose of the Amendment to secure.
Seite 62 - For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was formed we are one people, with one common country. We are all citizens of the United States, and as members of the same community must have the right to pass and repass through every part of it without interruption, as freely as in our own States.
Seite 83 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens...
Seite 63 - This Court long ago recognized that the nature of our Federal Union and our constitutional concepts of personal liberty unite to require that all citizens be free to travel throughout the length and breadth of our land uninhibited by statutes, rules, or regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict this movement.
Seite 61 - the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State,' that right finds no explicit mention in the Constitution. The reason, it has been suggested, is that a right so elementary was conceived from the beginning to be a necessary concomitant of the stronger Union the Constitution created. In any event, freedom to travel throughout the United States has long been recognized as a basic right under the Constitution.
Seite 73 - Misuse of power, possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer is clothed with the authority of state law, is action taken 'under color of
Seite 46 - It is hereby declared to be the national policy that elderly and handicapped persons have the same right as other persons to utilize mass transportation facilities and services; that special efforts shall be made in the planning and design of mass transportation facilities and services...
Seite 86 - It is no answer that the State has a law which if enforced would give relief. The federal remedy is supplementary to the state remedy, and the latter need not be first sought and refused before the federal one is invoked.
Seite 61 - The right to travel is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment.
Seite 131 - I am here today speaking on behalf of the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors. The National League of Cities consists of, and is the national spokesman for, approximately 15,000 municipal governments in all fifty states and Puerto Rico.