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	Interstate Highway System: Later Road Development: Wisconsin History Explorer of the Wisconsin Historical Society
		Although the interstate highway system was not completed nationwide until the 1970s, it had been in the planning stages for nearly half a century.
		Interest in the interstate system was renewed in 1939, when the Bureau of Public Roads submitted a report to Congress advocating the construction of a special system of direct interregional highways.
		Nationally, with connection of the control points, the interstate highway system would serve 90 percent of the cities in the United States with populations over 50,000, 65 percent of the urban population, and 50 percent of the rural population.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /archstories/late_roads/interstate_system.asp (1454 words)

	The US Interstate Highway System: 40 Year Report
		Interstate high occupancy vehicle lanes provide a form of mass transportation that cannot be provided by conventional mass transit services, providing commuters with door-to-door convenience, and faster and more efficient access to the entire metropolitan region, not just the downtown markets to which efficient mass transit services are necessarily limited.
		Interstate highways, which carry nearly one-quarter of the nation's surface passenger transport and 45 percent of motor freight transport, accounts for a considerable portion of this employment and economic activity.
		While estimates for the interstate highway system alone are not available, the efficiency and substantial role of the interstates leads to a reasonable presumption of their important contribution to international competitiveness.
	www.publicpurpose.com /freeway1.htm (10436 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938 directed the chief of the Bureau of Public Roads (precursor to today's Federal Highway Administration) to study the feasibility of a six-route national toll road network.
		Interstates 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 70, 75, 80, 90, 94 and 95 are all more than 1,000 miles long.
		Interstates carry nearly 60,000 people per route-mile per day, 26 times the amount of all other roads, and 22 times the amount of rail passenger services.
	www.eisenhower.utexas.edu /highway.htm (1154 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Because the interstate system "is preponderantly national in scope and function," the report recommended that the federal government pay most of the cost of its construction.
		Because of the significance of the interstate system to national defense, Fallon changed the official name to the "National System of Interstate and Defense Highways." This new name remained in all future House versions and was adopted in 1956.
		Interstate funds would be apportioned on a cost-to-complete basis; that is, the funds would be distributed in the ratio which each state's estimated cost of completing the system bears to the total cost of completing the system in all states.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/summer96/p96su10.htm (5395 words)

	Interstate History
		The United States' intricate system of highways links Portland to Pensacola, Pacific Coast to Atlantic, and cities and rural towns in between.
		In the beginning of the 20th century, a national, uninterrupted system of highways was merely a pipe dream.
		Under the auspices of the Bureau of Public Roads, the goal of this act was to study the feasibility of a toll-financed system of three east-west and three north-south superhighways.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/interstate1.html (574 words)

	IL50
		It is the part that does the “heavy lifting.” While the interstate system comprises less than 1 percent of all the country’s roads, it carries over 20 percent of all traffic and over 40% of all truck traffic.
		To truly understand the how the interstate system came to be and the tremendous changes it introduced, one has to turn back the clock to realize what motor vehicle travel and roads were like before the interstate era.
		The problems afflicting the American highway system in the late 1940s and early 1950s did not occur “overnight.” It was not as if highway professionals and public officials, all of sudden woke up one morning to discover a “transportation crisis.” Nor was it that there were no ideas on how to solve the problems.
	www.il50.com /ike_system.html (5557 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. interstate system marks 50 years today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He launched the interstate highway system, a giant public works project that would speed travel and the distribution of goods, make driving safer, fuel the growth of suburbs and link far-flung regions of the nation.
		The interstate network is getting crowded much faster than it's being expanded, and spending to expand and modernize it must increase dramatically to reduce congestion, according to a report being released today.
		Spending on interstate repairs and improvements this year is about $17 billion — less than the $21 billion needed to maintain highways and bridges in their current condition and keep traffic congestion from worsening, TRIP reports.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-06-28-interstate-system_x.htm (884 words)

	America on the Move \| Introduction
		As you come to the Interstate section, a variety of vehicles are sitting on the highway, each representing a different story.
		The 41,000-mile system was designed to reach every city with a population of more than 100,000.
		Interstates chopped up cities and bypassed existing roadside businesses, created new kinds of cities and suburbs, and boosted industry and commerce.
	americanhistory.si.edu /onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_16_1.html (252 words)

	National Highway System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Strategic Highway Network(STRAHNET): This is a network of highways which are important to the United States' strategic defense policy and which provide defense access, continuity and emergency capabilities for defense purposes.
		NHS Procedures procedures for system actions on the National Highway System.
		Highway Systems - Federal-Aid Policy Guide - policies and procedures relating to the identification of federal-aid highways, functional classification of roads and streets, the designation of urban area boundaries, and the designation of routes on the Federal-aid highway system.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /hep10/nhs (639 words)

	Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, due to the cancellation of the Somerset Freeway, Interstate 95 has not been completed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; the Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project will complete that route, the last section of the original (1947) plans to be completed (though a few routes, like Interstate 80 in Northern Ohio, have been relocated).
		Several Interstates in the South, including I-16 in Georgia, I-40 in North Carolina, I-64 in Virginia, I-65 in Alabama, I-10, I-12, I-55 and I-59 in Louisiana, and I-55 and I-59 in Mississippi, are equipped and signed specifically for contraflow, with crossovers inland after major interchanges to distribute much of the traffic.
		Interstate 355, a tolled Interstate, beneath the Illinois Prairie Path in the west suburbs of Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interstate_Highway_System (4420 words)

	Reason Foundation Commentary: It's Time to Reconstruct America's Interstate System
		The highway system is built out and "mature," they say, allowing the nation to move on to other important public projects.
		The U.S. highway system is in its infancy, a 20th century design poorly suited to the transportation needs of the 21st century.
		The interstate highway system was conceived prior to World War II, officially proposed in 1944, and finally funded in 1956.
	www.reason.org /commentaries/staley_20060630.shtml (1067 words)

	Layover.com: Interstate Highways Celebrate 50 Years
		Motorists making their daily commute along the interstate might not know it, but a national convoy of interstate highway enthusiasts are in the middle of a golden anniversary celebration of the roadway that connects east to west, north to south and reaches every major U.S. city.
		The interstate highway system turns 50 on June 29, and the milestone is being celebrated from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., by a convoy led by Merrill Eisenhower Atwater, great-grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who pushed for passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 that began construction of the roadway.
		The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration says the interstate highway system was officially regarded as complete in 1991, although 1.5 miles of the original planned system remained unconstructed as of 2005.
	www.layover.com /cgi-bin/portal/printnews.pl/9540.html (416 words)

	John Bridge Ceramic Tile Forums - Interstate Highway System
		I say the Interstate Highway system as we know it was federally mandated and funded under the Defense Department (still the War Department then?) because there was no other Constitutional way to do it.
		Eisenhower was an avid supporter of the Federal Highway System; it was during his presidency that the current system was passed.
		The Interstate highway system and its predecessors, U.S. highways, are justified under the "Commerce Clause" of the Constitution, along with about nine million other items that are otherwise unconstitutional.
	www.johnbridge.com /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1719 (1368 words)

	Welcome to Interstate-Guide.com!
		Designated in 1956, the Eisenhower Interstate System includes over 65,000 miles with routes in each of the 50 states and the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico.
		Interstate business connections (loops and spurs) were approved by AASHTO in 1964 as a method to provide access from the Interstate superhighway to the cities and towns bypassed by the freeway.
		In addition to our list of Interstates, we recommend you also peruse the Official Federal Highway Administration Interstate Route Log and Finder List and Three-Digit Interstates (3dis) at Kurumi.com for additional information on the United States Interstate Highway System.
	www.interstate-guide.com /index.html (368 words)

	50th Anniversary of the Interstate Highway System Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On this Web site, you will find information about the history of the Eisenhower Interstate System and how it affects each of our lives daily, not just as a means of travel, but as a part of our culture and the American way of life.
		This Web site is dedicated to the visionaries and leaders of past generations who created and funded the Interstate System as well as the State and Federal officials, private contractors, and members of national organizations who helped make the United States the most mobile country in the world.
		Although the Interstate System accounts for about 1.1 percent of the Nation's total public road mileage, it carries 24 percent of all highway travel.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /interstate/homepage.cfm (312 words)

	‘Road trip' celebrates interstate highway system
		The 28-foot trailer is similar to the original Airstreams that were popular on interstate highways among vacationers beginning around the time the system was launched.
		Eisenhower’s memory ofthat long, arduous trek was the stimulus for his later advocacy of a national interstate highway system that could transport military vehicles and people across the country with ease and expedience.
		Also part of the installation will be a 3-D virtual environment that allows visitors to use a game pad to navigate a simulation of the interstate highways under construction, and to “fly over” the highways to hear random, pre-recorded travelers’ stories.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /ii/06/0420/ontheroad.html (505 words)

	Learn About Congress: National Highway System
		Twenty years later, the Bureau of Public Roads had identified to Congress the need for a national road system to improve connections between cities and states.
		Rural residents thought the new highways might limit access to small communities.
		Three years later, with construction and financing approved, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed into law.
	congress.indiana.edu /radio_series/national_highway_system.php (234 words)

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