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Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA, ) is a United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first U.S. federal legislation on the subject in the post-Interstate Highway System era.

The act was signed into law on December 18, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush and codified as and. The bill was preceded by the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act in 1987 and followed by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) in 2005, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) in 2012, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST) in 2015, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2021.

Objective
The act presented an overall intermodal approach to highway and transit funding with collaborative planning requirements, giving significant additional powers to metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).

ISTEA also provided funds for the conversion of dormant railroad corridors into rail trails; the first rail trail to be funded was the Cedar Lake Regional Rail Trail, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

High priority corridors
Section 1105 of the act also defines a number of High Priority Corridors, to be part of the National Highway System. After various amendments in subsequent transportation bills and other legislation, this is a list of the corridors:

High-speed rail corridors
The legislation also called for the designation of up to five high-speed rail corridors. The options were studied for several months, and announced in October 1992. The first four were announced by United States Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card, while the last was announced by Federal Railroad Administration head Gil Carmichael.

 * October 15, 1992: The Midwest high-speed rail corridor with three links from Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan, St. Louis, Missouri, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
 * October 16, 1992: The Florida high-speed rail corridor linking Miami with Orlando and Tampa.
 * October 19, 1992: The California high-speed rail corridor linking San Diego and Los Angeles with the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento via the San Joaquin Valley.
 * October 20, 1992: The Southeast high-speed rail corridor connecting Charlotte, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
 * October 20, 1992: The Pacific Northwest high-speed rail corridor linking Eugene and Portland, Oregon with Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

There was not significant funding attached to these announcements: $30 million had been allocated to several states by 1997 to improve grade crossings, but that was a very tiny amount in comparison to the billions required for a true high-speed network. Aside from a few places in California and the Chicago–Detroit Line, most areas outside the Northeast Corridor continued to be limited to 79 mph until $8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was distributed in January 2010.

Jeff Morales one of the principal drafters of this bill, served as CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is currently constructing a high-speed rail line along the route originally proposed in this bill, from 2012 to 2017.

Airbags
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 also mandated that passenger automobiles and light trucks built after September 1, 1998, to have airbags installed as standard equipment for the driver and the right front passenger.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rainier Zhang

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 09:27, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Rainier Zhang
Seems to be a 'googleless' nobody - but perhaps one of you Canadians out there know better--Doc Glasgow 22:43, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

He has participated in many toronto spoken word events, and been published in numerous poetry anthologies. Simmy Dhaliwal (actually 142.151.184.103)
 * Delete Pretty useless even as a stub. The JPS 23:43, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Googleless? Then not here either. Unless he's sprung up within the last few hours, Google would have found him. Unless of course the name has been misspelled thus causing the lack of results, but I doubt it. 142.151.184.103, I have moved your sign-off up a line, please try to avoid formatting that breaks the flow of a discussion page. Master Thief Garrett 00:44, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 04:39, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP, I have been to one of his readings, he has a book coming out in June, excellent writer. User:AndyisAndy 02:44, 25 Apr 2005
 * Delete, vaNNity. Radiant_* 11:03, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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Talk:Rise Above Records

Artist List
Just added some bands to the artist list, though it's still by no means complete. If anyone wants to have a go at finishing it, good luck with sorting artists as 'Currently Signed' or 'Previously Signed', as well as a 'UK Distributor For...' subsection! -- Viro 22:45, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Discography section
I really think it is very unencyclopedic and should be removed from the article. The reason that I'm not doing this immediately is because I don't want it to be a faulty edit that results in some controversy. But I do truly believe it should be removed. I looked at other wikipedia articles about record labels, and there is no discography section like this. What are your thoughts? Backtable Speak to Me about what I have done  05:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I definitely disagree. Check out labels like Southern Lord Records or Man's Ruin Records. Both have discographies (although Man's Ruin has a separate page). Perhaps it should be broken out into a page called Rise Above Records discography. BeastmasterGeneral  18:09, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

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