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Basically I'm looking for suggestions for mass transit projects from around 1960 onwards. They can be completely new ones, ones that got cancelled, or extensions of projects that went ahead. The funding is going to come from an idea I had in another thread.

It was the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 that created the Highway Trust Fund funded by a 3¢ per gallon tax on gas, increased to 4¢ a couple of years later, and later raised to 9¢ with the Highway Revenue Act of 1982. As part of that though they also passed the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 which created the Mass Transit Account with 1¢ of the gas tax going to it. So how about combining the two? When they come to raise the tax to 4¢ in the late 1950s someone important enough to force their view insists on instead increasing it to 5¢ with the extra penny going to a newly created Mass Transit Account operating under the same rules as the main Highway Trust Fund.
Doing some more searches the gasoline tax increase to 4¢ was included in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959. According to 1963 edition of The Statesman's Year-Book, a publication no good home should be without, for the financial year 1960-61 the Highway Trust Fund received $2,925 million in income and spent $2,746 million, which ignoring the economic effects of raising it to 5¢ would have for simplicity's sake works out to $731 million for our proposed Mass Transit Account. Have it operating in a similar manner to the Highway Trust Fund with federal government covering 80% of the costs and the states covering the remaining 20% gives you a potential maximum budget of $914 million for the year. Cities and states can of course spend extra out of their own funds.

So as I wrote there's theoretically $731 million being raised, which on an 80/20 Federal/State split gives a potential $914 million a year in funding going forward.
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