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The following is an excerpt from First Progress Report of the Highway Cost Allocation Study (Letter from Secretary of Commerce, February 28, 1957, GPO, House Document No. 106, 85th Congress, 1st Session.
In the earlier days of our...
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Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration
We were not a wealthy Nation when we began improving our highways... but the roads themselves helped us create a new...
Photos courtesy of American Highway Users Alliance
November 30, 1959
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Reported to the President, the present status of the study on roads, and the proposal to submit a proposed First Interim Report thereon. Recalled that in response to his original...
The Interstate highway system is essential to America's prosperity...
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by Seppo Sillan
In early 2000, the Federal Highway Administration received a letter from a middle school student in Kansas about the Interstate System. Seppo Sillan, who was acting Director of the Office of Program Administration, replied on February 16. He has since retired. Mr. Sillan'...
by
Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration
Every President and succeeding Congresses have honored the strong bipartisan commitment to the Interstate System that was reflected in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 signed by President...
