For a long time, the U.S. Interstate Highway System was the longest in the world at over 46,000 miles, but its construction ...
The US interstate system transformed travel and commerce but also left a complex legacy of divided communities.
In 1991, the Federal Highway Administration revealed that the total cost of the Interstate Highway System was a whopping $128.9 billion, or about half a trillion dollars in 2016’s money. In 2019, ...
Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System is about to turn 70. Love them or hate them. The interstate highways are the arteries of our ...
The 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s signing of the Interstate Highway Act is a good time to dust off this review of the PBS documentary, “Taken for a Ride” that I wrote 10 years ago when ...
In his 1955 annual message to Congress on the state of the union, Eisenhower said: "A modern highway system is essential to meet the needs of our growing population, our expanding economy, and our ...
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