highways -- circa 1957

Les Schaffer godzilla at netmeg.net
Fri Aug 21 17:15:28 PDT 1998


I was out of town on business today. had breakfast at a lil place off Interstate 80 in new joisy. The walls of the restaurant were lined with old Saturday Evening Post covers. pretty cool looking back through time this way.

anyway.... there was one cover, from i think june 1957. and one of the lead articles was called something like: 'highways -- why they're not working out'.

So, what happened back when i was 3 years old?

of course, i can guess: the interstate highway system was some massive, federally funded extravaganza that purportedly was built __in response to__ an anticipated need but actually was built in order to encourage car ownership, suburbs, interstate commerce, etc ?????

but what happened that caused, at some point, the perception that the system wasnt 'working out'?

any elders out there?

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