General Highway History
In Memory of President George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) The Man Who Brought About the Post-Interstate Era
By Richard F. Weingroff
Betty, Girl Engineer
A Look Back as FHWA Celebrates National Women's Month
by Richard Weingroff
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Happy 50th Anniversary: National Bridge Inspection Standards
By Joey Hartmann and Richard Weingroff
Landscape Design and Its Relation to the Modern Highway
By
Wilbur H. Simonson
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
U. S. Department of Commerce
Washington, D.C.
First Lecture at Rutgers University, College of Engineering
Spencer Miller, Jr., Lecture Series, February - April, 1952
Wilbur H. Simonson was Chief of the...
Frederick W. Cron on Highway Design Under Evolution
Frederick W. Cron, an engineer with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads from 1928 to 1969, was also a historian of highway design. While living in retirement in Colorado, he saw a letter in the Denver Post advocating a scenic design for Interstate highways. Mr. Cron wrote the...
Edward M. Bassett The Man Who Gave us "Freeway"
by Richard F. Weingroff
The parkway concept, intended for recreational driving, embodied many design concepts that would be integral to expressways, including wide right-of-way, control of access, elimination of grade crossings with other highways, and separated highway...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Excess Condemnation
By Richard F. Weingroff
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a big supporter of toll superhighways, which he saw as a way to create jobs for the unemployed during the Depression. During World War II, he saw the concept as vital to having projects on the shelf ready...