Passenger Train Service: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4292, a Bill to Repeal Section 13a of the Interstate Commerce Act; H.R. 5596 and H.R. 9742, Bills to Amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, So as to Strengthen and Improve the National Transportation System, Insure the Protection of the Public Interest, and for Other Purposes; H.R. 5866, a Bill to Amend Section 13a (1) of the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, Relative to the Discontinuance Or Change of the Operation of Certain Trains Or Ferries and Similar Bills. March 1, 2, 4, April 6, 7, 8, May 3, 4, 6, and 10, 1960

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Considers H.R. 5596 and 28 related bills, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to require formal ICC hearing for each railroad and ferry boat passenger line earmarked for abandonment where more than one state is involved.
 

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Page 60 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing, finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 107 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity...
Page 434 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation, subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 590 - In view of the existing depression in agriculture, the Commission is hereby directed to effect with the least practicable delay such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of the products of agriculture affected by that depression, including livestock, at the lowest possible lawful rates compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service...
Page 128 - Every public utility shall furnish, provide and maintain such service, instrumentalities, equipment and facilities as shall promote the safety, health, comfort and convenience of its patrons, employees and the public, and as shall be in all respects adequate, efficient, just and reasonable.
Page 5 - The Commission is also authorized to avail itself of the cooperation, services, records, and facilities of such State authorities in the enforcement of any provision of this Act.
Page 130 - Whenever either commission shall be of opinion that a common carrier, railroad corporation or street railroad corporation subject to its supervision is failing or omitting or about to fail or omit to do anything required of it by law or by order of the commission, or is doing anything or about to do anything or permitting anything or about to permit anything to be done, contrary to or in violation of law...
Page 5 - ... by the constitution or statutes of any State or where the State authority having jurisdiction thereof shall have denied an application or petition duly filed with it by said carrier or carriers for authority to discontinue or change, in whole or in part, the operation or service of any such train or ferry or shall not have acted finally on such an application or petition within one hundred and twenty days from the presentation thereof, such carrier or carriers may petition the commission for...
Page 120 - ... to require every public utility to construct, maintain and operate its line, plant, system, equipment, apparatus, tracks and premises in such manner as to promote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, passengers, customers, and the public, and to this end, to prescribe, among other things, the installation, use, maintenance and operation of appropriate safety or other devices or appliances, including interlocking and other protective devices at grade crossings or junctions and...
Page 4 - SEC. 13a. (1) A carrier or carriers subject to this part, if their rights with respect to the discontinuance or change, in whole or in part, of the operation or service of any train or ferry operating from a point in one State to a point in any other State...

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