highways -- circa 1957

[Les Schaffer]

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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