Department Of Transportation Essay

Within our executive branch of government, there are many, many different departments that specialize in specific categories within the United States. One of these departments, which is one of the more important ones in my opinion, is the Department of Transportation. This department’s main goal is to “Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.” (“About Us.” US Department of Transportation, United States Department of Transportation, 1 Mar. 2012, www.transportation.gov/mission/about-us.) To sum it up, this department works to create working roadways to travel on, as well as keep them up to date as they begin to deteriorate and become harder to travel on. This is one of the more important department to me because of the fact that the vast majority of Americans use public roads to travel and having safe roads to use is a necessity. …show more content…
Because the FS (U.S. Forest Service) had a source of revenue from timber harvesting, livestock grazing, and other commercial activities, the Agricultural Appropriation Acts of 1912 and 1913 authorized 10 percent of those funds to be expended on construction and maintenance of roads and trails serving the National Forest, the first law offering a sustained source of revenue for road improvement purposes in the public domain, $210,925 in fiscal year 1912 and $239,192 in 1913. As of today, the manager that manages the budget and performance reports of the department and is Laura M. Ziff and she is in charge of not only the department within, but some of the funding for the