Its 1939 report, Toll Roads and Free Roads, was the beginning of the concept for the Interstate Highway System. Throughout ...

This 1956 Dow Chemical film explained and promoted the 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act by showing a fictional town impacted by the new highway system. It was released as ...

the 48,000-mile Interstate Highway System (IHS) quietly reached a major milestone on June 29. On that date in 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Road Act authorizing the ...

Interstate travel is coming to another corner of Arkansas as Highway 67 changed its designation to Interstate 57 on Thursday.

If modern-day Portland has an origin story, it might just be the strangling of the Mount Hood Freeway, which officially died ...

American society was ushered into a new millenium and experienced a level of connectedness never before witnessed. American ...

“When construction began on I-90 in 1956 as part of the Eisenhower-era interstate highway system, it was designed to carry 50,000 vehicles on the average day. It reached that in 1978, just four ...

On July 12, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system. It took a few ... began the process that became the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.

“However pressure from disgruntled motorists driving slow and dangerous old Route 7, plus the creation of the federal interstate ... system cut the ribbon at the entrance to the highway where ...

For those who care, when the Interstate Highway system was created during the Dwight ... It is rather easy to overlay a map showing the railroads through this area with a map of the interstates ...

The agency is currently working with Tennessee transportation officials and the Federal Highway Administration on a long-term reconstruction plan for I-40. Interstate 81 offers a bypass to I-40.