interstate highway system
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I date myself with this one. In a world in which a growing majority don't even remember when televisions came in black and white without clickers, for that matter or cars came with roll-up windows, the birth of the interstate highway system must sound like ancient history.
But some of us lived it. I remember as a child in southern Wisconsin hearing about the fancy new highway being built just outside of town, gobbling up farms and homes along the way, and recall getting in the family car to take a ride on the new I-90 just after it opened. The great round ramps cloverleafs, they were cleverly called seemed so futuristic, and we cruised up the uninterrupted two-lane I-road in style until it was time to turn around and go back.
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Did you know the nation's interstate highway system today encompasses more than 65,000 miles with routes in each of the 50 states and Puerto Rico?
Today is the 53rd anniversary of the signing of the Eisenhower Interstate System, which provided $33.5 billion for highway construction and became the biggest public works program in history.
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Memorial Day weekend travelers will find a few work zones that may slow their travels.
Projects on the state's Interstate Highway System will allow at least two lanes in each direction, however delays can be expected during peak travel periods, according to a news release from the Department of Transportation.
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In 1919, a young army officer named Dwight D. Eisenhower led a cross-country military convoy on the narrow, barely paved buggy paths that passed in th...
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WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- America's transportation network, anchored by 46,000-miles of Interstate highways and nearly 56,000 Interstate bridges, has inspired more than 500 popular songs and played a central role in more than 100 major motion pictures, according to research by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA).
ARTBA conducted the Internet search to coincide with the upcoming June 29 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Interstate Highway System, and to show how the road and bridge network influenced pop culture in the United States.
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