The Big Roads
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Some adjacent things - Power Broker by Caro briefly covers it - Toll Roads and Free Roads is the report that conceived it http://www.virginiaplaces.org/transportation/tollroadsfreeroads.pdf … - https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/50interstate.cfm … - https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/96summer/index.cfm …
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- Book on history of urban transportation http://www.edthefed.com/planning/documents/weiner1997.pdf … - There's a 1944 report on Interregiona Highways that's also key--but I only have dead link
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• Divided Highways http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100149740 … is the best retrospective I can suggest. • Toll Roads and Free Roads http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/843253235 was the extensive report on what they thought they were going to do • The Yellow Book https://archive.org/details/yellow-book-1955/ … was the concrete plan
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Related but not exactly what you asked… I enjoyed “Where the Old Roads Go:Southwest” by George Cantor. It’s half pre-Interstate history of National Highways and half travel guide. It’s excellent source material for offbeat road trips.
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“The Big Roads” by Earl Swift.
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Different medium, but great content https://youtu.be/rseaKBPkRPU
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