Hello, Twitter! I would like to read a good book about the creation of the U.S. interstate highway system. Recommendations?
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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 virginiaplaces.org/transportation
- fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure
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- Book on history of urban transportation edthefed.com/planning/docum
- There's a 1944 report on Interregiona Highways that's also key--but I only have dead link
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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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• Divided Highways cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=801 is the best retrospective I can suggest.
• Toll Roads and Free Roads worldcat.org/oclc/843253235 was the extensive report on what they thought they were going to do
• The Yellow Book archive.org/details/yellow was the concrete plan
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