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Editor's Notes

This issue of Public Roads focuses on three anniversaries of special interest to the "highway community." The interstate highway system has its 40th birthday on June 29.

Policy and Legislation

"Along the Road" is the place to look for information about current and upcoming activities, developments, trends, and items of general interest to the highway community.

New Research

The following new research studies reported by the Federal Highway Administration are sponsored in whole or in part with federal highway funds. For further details on a particular study, please contact Bob Bryant, editor of Public Roads.

Federal Aid Road Act of 1916: Building The Foundation

As suggested by Gen. Stone a year before he became the federal government's first special agent and engineer for road inquiry, the "disease" was bad roads. Well into the 20th century, calling them "roads" gives them more credit than they deserve.