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• A noteworthy year 

  The Golden Anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate System was just one of several significant anniversaries in highway history in 2006. The...

  Public Roads, 11/01/06 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• The battle of its life 

  Even as construction continued at a record pace, the Interstate System needed a rescuer-and found one in Rex Whitton of Missouri. Even as...

  Public Roads, 05/01/06 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• Essential to the national interest 

  The first decade of the greatest public works project in history began a transportation system yet unrivaled in the world--along with problems to...

  Public Roads, 03/01/06 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• The year of the interstate 

  In 2006, the 50th anniversary of "the greatest public works project in history" calls for a celebration--and an appeal for a searching look at the...

  Public Roads, 01/01/06 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• The man who loved roads: by all rights, President Truman should have been the "Father of the Interstate System," but he gave that place in history to his successor 

  One of the little-known quirks of history is that Harry Truman could have been the Father of the Interstate System. One of the little-known...

  Public Roads, 05/01/02 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• Creating a Landmark: The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 

  Introduction Introduction The date is Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1991. The scene is Tarrant County, Texas, on a State Highway 360 construction site...

  Public Roads, 11/01/01 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• The Interstate System And Urban Problems, 1939-1957 

  If you wanted to know the 20th century's top songs, movies, novels, people, TV shows, news stories, or any other topic capable of being ranked by...

  Public Roads, 09/01/00 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• ''…From dense ignorance and otherwise.'' 

  Europe and the US have been engaged in a 100-plus years 'road battle' which commenced during the early 1890's. It began following the US Dept of...

  Public Roads, 11/01/97 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication

• A peaceful campaign of progress and reform 

  The first incarnation of the Federal Highway Administration, then known as the Office of Road Inquiry, was created by Pres Grover Cleveland on Oct...

  Public Roads, 09/22/93 by Richard F. Weingroff · More from publication