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Celebrating the 50TH Anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate System
by Richard F. Weingroff
The Greatest Public Works Project in History produced the greatest decade in the history of highways. And problems to match....
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 and way of...
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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'...
