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Interstate Highways

It has to be said that the US interstate highways are a pretty good system that keep the country moving. They often have a pour reputation and get bad coverage while smaller crappy roads are overlooked. Our interstate highways are the skeletal structure to the entire United States but often get insulted. However, we really would be lost without them — no pun intended! Long distance travel has to obviously be done on the United States interstate highways and would be virtually impossible with just tiny roads.

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Much credit has to be given to those experienced drivers who cover unbelievable distances and become desensitized to the different towns and cities they pass through. Some novel thoughts come to people as they ride over the land and certain realizations about life, death and other weighty themes.

Originally the interstate highways were never designed to link into all major cities. With this evolvement and the rapid development of cars many other issues have arisen. Traffic jams, bad air and fuel reliance are just a few problems that they brought. These interstate highways, born to aid the security and protection of the US, quickly became a means for treks and trade. It wasn't intended this way but these mega roads encouraged suburb enlargement and the spread out of major cities.

It was Dwight David Eisenhower a fresh captain in the army in July 7, 1919 with two hundred and four other people travelled in the first vehicle over the States. It did however take an enormous amount of time considering the road development at the time. Eisenhower ended up becoming the President of the United States of America and started a drive towards structured state-linking mega roads. To get the plan accepted took 2 years.

Government supplied financial support for ninety percent of the project and the individual states would give the remaining amount. Benchmarked interstate highways started popping up and there development remained extremely synchronized. Certain requirements were absolute such as lanes should be 12 feet in width and shoulders 10 feet in width. A hugely important aspect was the ability to handle constant travel up to seventy miles per hour.

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