Chicago Transit Authority, a Municipal Corporation v. Brock Adams, Secretary of the Department of Transportation

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns section 164(b) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973, 49 U.S.C. § 1602a(b), section 3(g) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, 49 U.S.C. § 1602(g), and the regulations promulgated thereunder, 49 C.F.R. § 604 et seq. 1 At issue is whether a grantee of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (“UMTA”) can provide daily bus service in buses purchased with federal funds for students traveling to their schools of regular attendance from a common departure point at a neighborhood school each morning and back to the neighborhood…