Highways were “as necessary to defense as they are to our national economy and personal safety,” President Dwight D.

The simplicity of the U.S. highway system is something that can be taken for granted, but when you stand back and look “it ...

This map was apparently part of a major lobbying effort to secure funding from the Congress to complete the Interstate Highway System. Show more The highway system, adopted by Congress in 1956, was a ...

Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System is about to turn 70. Love them or hate them. The interstate highways are the arteries of our ...

At first glance, the U.S. Interstate Highway system might seem like a logical grid-based masterpiece with a semblance of order behind its numbering system. Odd-numbered interstates run from north to ...