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Former Senator William Proxmire (D-Wi.) periodically issued a "Golden Fleece" to "the biggest, most ridiculous or ironic examples of wasteful federal spending." On November 10, 1981, the Golden Fleece went to the Federal Highway Administration for "the worst record of civilian cost overruns in...
On October 12, 1956, the White House announced that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had chosen Bertram D. Tallamy to be the first Federal Highway Administrator under a law, approved by the President on August 3, that created the position to head the Bureau of Public Roads in the Department of...
The design of pavements and bridges on the Interstate System largely followed the results of the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) Road Test.
The test site in Ottawa, Illinois, was financed by the State highway agencies, the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), the...
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...
