The Interstate system was seen as the road to the future, representing prosperity and driving US economic growth by fostering mobility.
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Look at the railroads, the canals, the interstate system, GPS, for example.
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In her book Killer on the Road, author Ginger Strand traces the link between the Interstate system and highway killers and describes the uneasy relationship Americans continue to have with their roads.
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America has a grand tradition of national planning, from Thomas Jefferson's vision for roads and canals in 1808, which influenced policy for the next century (and led to America's first transcontinental railway) to Dwight Eisenhower's Federal Highway-Aid Act of 1956, which created the interstate system.
The State of California, Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the California State Highway System, as well as that portion of the Interstate Highway System within the state's boundaries.
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We built the transcontinental railroad, the Interstate Highway System, the Hoover Dam, Grand Central Station.
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The Recovery Act included the most serious investment in our infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
These are jobs that private contractors contract with the state or the city or the county to build roads and highways, the same way that we built the Interstate Highway System and the Intercontinental Railroad System.
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And a growing number seem to be suspicious of any federal involvement at all in infrastructure investments, despite the fact that it was a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, who created the interstate highway system in the 1950s with large dollops of federal cash.
To put this another way, roughly three-quarters of Recovery Act highway funding is already being invested as part of the largest investment in the nation's infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System back in the 1950s.
The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
And we're putting Americans to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, schools and waterways with the largest investment in our infrastructure since the Interstate Highway System was built in the 1950s.
It's not exactly a landscape of mom-and-pop inns, but Liang says there's a parallel with the U.S. of the 1950s before the interstate highway system was finished: The market is fragmented and full of opportunity.
And we made the largest investment in infrastructure since the creation of the Interstate Highway System, putting Americans to work rebuilding our roads, bridges, waterways -- doing the work that America needs to be done.
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It was Eisenhower who launched the Interstate Highway System and new investment in scientific research.
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That was before the interstate highway system and Medicare and scores of other programs we rely on.
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The same can be said of the interstate highway system and other, but not many other, enterprises.
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From the first railroads to the Interstate Highway System, this nation has always been built to compete.
The fund is the primary source of federal money for transportation infrastructure and the interstate highway system.
From the very first railroads to the Interstate Highway System, our nation has always been built to compete.
America is the nation that built the transcontinental railroad, brought electricity to rural communities, constructed the Interstate Highway System.
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For example, the interstate highway system, air traffic control system and even the Internet were the result of DoD projects.
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The Recovery Act that we put forward had one of the biggest investments in infrastructure since Eisenhower started the Interstate Highway System.
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Past generations gave us the interstate highway system and the Hoover Dam.
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It's incompatible with the more common methane in the interstate pipeline system.
To offer one analogy, just imagine what transportation was like in this country back in the 1920s and 1930s before the Interstate Highway System was built.
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Roads and railways are being upgraded as part of the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower half a century ago initiated the Interstate Highway System.
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Dwight Eisenhower's support for the Interstate highway system was rooted in a disastrous transcontinental convoy that bogged down on dilapidated roads early in his army career.
If we look at any major infrastructure project, whether the Erie Canal, the interstate highway system, even NASA, we see that it was a new technology that solved old problems.
The less glamorous locales may not have as much homegrown science, but they make up for that with other attractions, like cheap land and easy access to the Interstate highway system.
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