Interstate System
By 1954 began an interstate system for making both civilian transportation and military transportation easier. This idea was from president Eisenhower over the German autobahn after being over seas during world war II. He though it was be a great idea for the country. So he created a commission to recommend a highway program that would cost as much as a war, and the budget of the federal budget was 71 billion dollars and the president wanted 40 billion of it to fulfill the highway program!
By 1956 the Federal Aid Highway Act passed through congress and the project was one of the most expensive public projects in American History. The act was based on the construction of an interstate highway system that would lay down close to 41,000 miles of road.
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