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The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of...
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or the Eisenhower Interstate System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.
From the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the Interstate System has been a part of our culture as construction projects, as transportation in our daily lives, and as an integral part of the American way of life.
From the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the Interstate System has been a part of our culture as construction projects, as transportation in our daily lives, and as an integral part of the American way of life.
The Interstate Highway System is responsible for the explosive grown of suburbs during the late 1950s and 1960s. The new roadways linked suburban homes to jobs located in the cities.
From the vantage point of the 21st century, we can see how the Interstate Highway Program launched in 1956 turned out. But as the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was working its way through the legislative process, what did the people involved think the Interstate System would accomplish?
On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation funding the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System (IHS)--something Americans had dreamed of since Detroit...
Though highways existed in the United States before the creation of the Interstate Highway System, the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 funded the construction of more than 40,000 miles (65,000 km) of roads and established guidelines for them.
Origins of the Interstate explores the critical years in the conceptualization of the Interstate System culminating in the 1956 Highway Act. Building the Interstate issues that affected the early years of construction. The Bragdon Committee an interesting footnote to the Eisenhower years.
The story of the creation of the Interstate Highway System spans two world wars and the life of one of America’s most famous leaders. In 1919, following the end of World War I, an Army expedition was organized to traverse the nation from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco.