Working in concert, the American Association of State Highway Officials and the Bureau of Public Roads adopted a uniform ...

Since the Interstate highway system was created from whole cloth, rather than emerging through the years, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there is a defined logic to the numbering system that ...

Seventy years ago, on June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, aka the National ...

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 ...

The US interstate system transformed travel and commerce but also left a complex legacy of divided communities.

It’s been called the 51st state, a perpetual motion machine, a journey with no end. It is the world’s largest public-works project. In a nation divided by geography and politics, the United States ...

The story of America’s interstates is usually told as a straightforward tale of postwar progress, but the real origins are stranger and more contested than the green signs suggest. The Dwight D.

Road enthusiasts, history buffs, and nostalgia fans are gearing up for the 100-year anniversary of historic Route 66 in 2026. About 345 miles of the historic 2,400-mile highway pass through Southern ...