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In article <FAIGIN.94Apr16084038@solarium.aero.org>,
Daniel P. Faigin <faigin@aero.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Apr 1994 14:48:24 GMT, hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) said:
>> Please clarify a point: what is the difference between the 1944
>> interstate system and the very hghly publicized at the time 1956
>> interstate highway act that resulted in the red, white and blue
>> shields?
>
>I can't give you precise differences; my information is from a CalTrans
>history. The 1944 act authorized 40,000 miles; the 1956 act authorized an
>additional 1,000 miles.

Hm. There's got to be more to it than that. All that autobahn type
cosntruction didn't start until after 1956. Except for states that were
already embarked on major road-building programs. After pasage of the
1956 bill, Time or Newsweek commented that most states were going to
have to really gear up, except for California and Ohio, which had
already begun major highway programs.

The old black-and-white shield highways were sometimes referred to as
interstate highways (lower case).

In any case, Ike took considerable pride in the passage of the 1956
bill. Is it possible the 1956 bill contained the appropriation while
the wartime bill was just post-war-ism?

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