Interstate Highway System

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It’s bigger than the railroad expansion of the 1850s, the Apollo space program that put astronauts on the moon in the 1960s and the decadeslong build-out of the U.S. interstate highway system that ended in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal

Within a year, President Eisenhower had signed the bill that would create the Interstate Highway System as we know it today.

From Los Angeles Times

The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law established the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program known as NEVI, setting aside $5 billion to build new EV chargers along America’s sprawling interstate highway system toward Mr. Biden’s goal of installing 500,000 public charging ports by 2030.

From Washington Times

“The biggest investment of rebuilding America's infrastructure since President Eisenhower's rebuilding of the roads and highways and bridges and with the interstate highway system. And we've done the same now delivering clean water, high-speed Internet to every American, and cheaply,” Biden explained.

From Salon

“Disneyland was built when the interstate highway system was just getting started, and California was building the freeways,” Apgar said, noting that American families began taking road trips — a luxury that previous generations could not afford.

From Los Angeles Times