Eisenhower and the US Interstate Highways

On the 50th anniversary of the Interstate Highways in the US, CR4 (a site that looks and feels so much like slashdot) has a five part series that looks at the history, politics and engineering of this grand system of highways. Fascinating stuff.

Part 1: A Giant Nationwide Engineering Project

Part 2: Roots of the Roads

Part 3: The Politics of Passage

Two more should be out later this week; I will add the links when they are published.

MSNBC also has a story on how the highways "moved America into another lane".

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Thanks to Krish for the pointers.