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Interstate Highway History

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Paid for by taxpayers via Federal Funding....and now certain states want to toll every lane of every highway.
Let's see how that pans out in the next four years or so.
 
Hard to imagine what the country would be like without interstates. Truly amazing how quickly they were built across the country.
 
Wasn't too many years ago when they removed the last
stop light on the Interstate system.It was in Wallace,Idaho,not too
far from the Montana border.Same place they filmed "Dante's Peak".
 
Didn't realize that some of it came so late. A friend wrote:

In 1967-ish, one could drive, without interruption, from Denver Colorado, through the wilds of westernKansas to Kansas City, across the entire state of Missouri ā€” and cometo a dead stop when you hit the outskirts of St. Louis. I-70 did pick up againon the eastern side of St. Louis. You were one your own if you wanted totrek through the city and connect the dots. And it helped if you werefoolhardy. The trans St. Louis section of I-70 wasfully completed until the 80s ā€” after multiple lawsuits,investigations, prison sentences, ruined political careers ---
 
after multiple lawsuits,investigations, prison sentences, ruined political careers ---
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they really should just include a big budget for graft & corruption on big projects like that.
....maybe I they already do?
 
GTP1960 said:
they really should just include a big budget for graft & corruption on big projects like that.
....maybe I they already do?
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I think that's a "given".

I remember driving from Fort Worth Texas to upstate New York back in the 1950s. What a nightmare - for many segments, just one lane east, one lane west. Get behind a slow moving truck and imagine 100 miles at 35 mph.

And head to a city - the main road (usually the US highway) went right downtown. So all that long-distance traffic built up inside the cities, dealing with cross traffic, traffic lights, stop signs - and school buses.

Wow - what an improvement the Interstate gave us.

(Also - I seem to recall FDR and Harry Hopkins actually drawing up the "first" interstate highway plans, back in the late 1930s. They never got built, as something called World War 2 intervened.)

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