Intresting Fact About American Interstate System

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[b] [url="http://www.omg-facts.com/Fun+Facts/Before-The-US-Interstate-Highway-System/55554"][color="#003399"]Before the US Interstate Highway System, it took more than 60 days to go from Washington to San Francisco! [/color][/url][/b]



[color="#003399"][img]http://cdn.omg-facts.com/2013/1/20/6c63b7c7223d529fcff1d2e080a53568.jpg[/img][/color]The US Interstate Highway System, also known was the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways is one of the US’s biggest communication achievements. It was started in 1941 when President Roosevelt appointed a committee to explore the possibility of creating it.
Before the system was established, a convoy of Army trucks was sent on a journey from Washington to San Francisco to test the efficiency of the roadway system in case of an emergency. It took them 62 days, which really underlined the need for better infrastructure. Today? If you go to Google Maps, it’ll tell you that a drive between those two places will take you about 41 hours!
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[left][b]President Eisenhower conceived the Interstate System.[/b][/left]
[left]The Interstate System was first described in a Bureau of Public Roads report to Congress, [i]Toll Roads and Free Roads[/i], in 1939. It was authorized for designation by the [i]Federal-Aid Highway[/i][i] Act of 1944[/i], with the initial designations in 1947 and completed in 1955 under the 40,000-mile limitation imposed by the 1944 [i]Act[/i]. President Eisenhower didn’t conceive the Interstate System, but his support led to enactment of the [i]Federal-Aid Highway[/i][i] Act of 1956[/i], which established the program for funding and building it.[/left]
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[left][b]President Eisenhower supported the Interstate System because he wanted a way of evacuating cities if the United States was attacked by an atomic bomb.[/b][/left]
[left]President Eisenhower’s support was based largely on civilian needs—support for economic development, improved highway safety, and congestion relief, as well as reduction of motor vehicle-related lawsuits. He understood the military value of the Interstate System, as well as its use in evacuations, but they were only part of the reason for his support.[/left]
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[left][b]Defense was the primary reason for the Interstate System.[/b][/left]
[left]The primary justifications for the Interstate System were civilian in nature. In the midst of the Cold War, the Department of Defense supported the Interstate System and Congress added the words “and Defense” to its official name in 1956 (“National System of Interstate and Defense Highways”). However, the program was so popular for its civilian benefits that the legislation would have passed even if defense had not been a factor.[/left]
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[left][b]The Interstate System was launched by the Interstate Defense Highway Act of 1956.[/b][/left]
[left]No such legislation passed in 1956 or any other year. Nevertheless, this title appears widely throughout the media instead of the correct title: the [i]Federal-Aid Highway[/i][i] Act of 1956[/i].[/left]
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[left][size=6][color=#ff0000][b]One in five miles of the Interstate System is straight so airplanes can land in emergencies.[/b][/color][/size][/left]
[left][size=6][color=#ff0000]This myth is widespread on the Internet and in reference sources, but has no basis in law, regulation, design manual—or fact. Airplanes occasionally land on Interstates when no alternative is available in an emergency, not because the Interstates are designed for that purpose.[/color][/size][/left]
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[left][b]Interstates are intended to serve only traffic going from State to State.[/b][/left]
[left]The Interstate System serves interstate, regional, and intra-State traffic, and was always expected to do so. In fact, many routes, including beltways and spurs, are located entirely in one State and serve primarily intra-State traffic. [/left]
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[left][b]Beltways are designed to carry Interstate traffic around cities.[/b][/left]
[left]Beltways do help traffic avoid cities, but also are intended to serve metropolitan traffic moving from main highway to main highway.[/left]
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[left][b]Congress should have put the money into transit instead of the Interstate System.[/b][/left]
[left]This was not an option in 1955 and 1956 when the congressional debate took place. At the time, transit was provided mainly by private companies. No one in the industry, in State and local governments, or in Congress imagined that the Federal Government would support these companies financially. In fact, the only thing the American Transit Association asked Congress to do was exempt buses from the gas tax. Congress did so.[/left]
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[left][b]Interstate numbers must be consistent with the numbering plan.[/b][/left]
[left]The numbering plan is helpful in choosing numbers for added routes. However, in an irregularly shaped country, consistency is not possible. The numbers are consistent for the most part, but irregularities have occurred for a number of reasons, such as addition of a route where a consistent number is not available or withdrawal of a route without concurrent renumbering of routes linked to it. These inconsistencies have no effect on motorists who “navigate” based on maps, new GPS technology, personal knowledge or directions, and other means, not the numbering plan. [/left]
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[left][b]The only built object astronauts can see from space is the Interstate System.[/b][/left]
[left]From an altitude of about 155 miles (250 kilometers), under the best of conditions, the unaided eye of an astronaut can see many built objects on Earth if he or she knows where to look. The Interstate System is not visible as a network, but astronauts using binoculars can see roads, cities, dams, airports, and other objects. [/left]

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Back in the 20's or 30's a young army officer named Dwight Eisenhower was given the task of moving a military unit across the continental US by vehicle. It took a very long time, because no national road system existed. At that time rail was the way to move a lot of stuff long distances.
A while later, Mr. Eisenhower fought a war with some folks called the Nazis. The Nazis developed and used a road system called the autobahn to move troops rapidly. Eisenhower like what he saw, so when he became President he made it one of the major projects of his administration.

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yes during cold war evacuation ki and emergency landing ki use avuthundhi ani kattincharu antaru.....its main purpose was defense....

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[url="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/interstatemyths.htm#question2"]President Eisenhower supported the Interstate System because he wanted a way of evacuating cities if the United States was attacked by an atomic bomb.[/url]

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