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Celebrating the 50TH Anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate System
by Richard F. Weingroff
Even as construction continued at a record pace, the Interstate System needed a savior-and found one in Missouri...
To mark the Interstate routes, the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) asked its member States to submit suggestions. The States submitted dozens of ideas in several forms, ranging from a 55mm color transparency to a 4-foot square aluminum blank. AASHO's U.S. Route Numbering...
When the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) issued design standards for the Interstate System, the minimum design value of 14 feet was included for vertical clearance (that is, the distance from the Interstate pavement to the bottom of overpasses). Although 14 feet was...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Grand Plan" is sometimes misunderstood as recommending construction of the Interstate System. His vision was far grander than that.
The President intended to present the Grand Plan to the Governor's Conference meeting at Bolton's Landing in Lake George,...
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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