BROTHER ROAD: Part 2 of 2; Booming along the great American interstate highway network.(News)
AutoWeek, July, 2006 by Wilson, Kevin A.
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON Travel averaging at least a mile a minute became a national expectation as well. I was in elementary school when my folks moved to the suburbs. That was before the interstates got there, but by the time I was in high school there was an interstate under construction within two miles of our home.
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When I first went to college the drive was 12 hours one way-about half the distance of it was on interstate, though that was only one-third of the time spent. The drive would have easily been a couple of hours longer, perhaps requiring an overnight stay without ...
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