#big roads

[xxapproachingzero]

I saw your reblog to a post about highways and interstates, and your interjection that I-90 is not a freeway. I would like to add some anecdata if I may. I have lived along I-90 all my life (Wisconsin west thru Montana). None of this span west of Chicago is tolled So yes, I-90 would be a freeway once you are west of Chicago. Everything at that point is fairly boring and uneventful, but could provide for hijinks in a roadtrip story if characters wanted to pass the time.

Nice!

If it wasn’t clear, I live near the part where Big Brother mans all the toll points.

Good to know that if I just kept going it’d be free!

[pussreboots]

To stave off having both areas crowded with too-similar numbers in the fifties or sixties, AASHO ditched the use of I50 or I60 and proposed that there be no interstate and U.S. highway with the same number in any state.

The Big Roads by Earl Swift (2011) p. 195

[pussreboots]

There shall be designated within the continental United States a National System of Interstate Highways ... so located as to connect by routes, as direct as practicable, the principal metropolitan areas, cities, and industrial centers, to serve the national defense, and to connect at suitable border points with routes of continental importance in the Dominion of Canada and the Republic of Mexico.

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, quoted in The Big Roads by Earl Swift (2011) p. 144-5

[pussreboots]

a new kind of thoroughfare — one which will be like a highway for both pleasure and business vehicles, but which will be like a parkway in preventing the cluttering-up of its edges.

William M. Bassett describing a freeway, a word he coined, quoted in The Big Roads by Earl Swift (2011) p. 110

[pussreboots]

The tycoon of Prest-O-Lite, creator of Indy and Miami Beach and the resort lifestyle, the millionaire, philanthropist, and visionary, the pioneer car buff who'd started America's first interstate auto roads when all about was mud and manure, slipped from the front page. In a very little while, he vanished from any page at all.

The Big Roads by Earl Swift (2011) p. 103

[pussreboots]

By the time Eisenhower signed the bill that financed the system, in June 1956, most its physical details were old news. Its routing had been committed to paper for eighteen years. The specifics of its design had beeen decided for twelve. Franklin Roosevelt had a greater hand in its creation than Eisenhower did, truth be told, and the system's origins go back much further than him.

The Big Roads by Earl Swift (2011) p. 7

[pussreboots]

We've come to so rely on this triumph of engineering — and make no mistake, that's what it is — that to embark cross-country on any lesser road, any Blue Highway, is viewed as nostalgic adventure, or escape, or eccentricity, a journey with an ulterior motive.

The Big Roads by Earl Swift (2011) p. 7

[adrianslens-blog]

Now thats a good road to cycle up!