For decades, the Interstate Highway System has been an essential link in connecting us to different communities and moving trillions of dollars of goods. In 2026, the highway system will turn 70 ...

On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation funding the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System (IHS)--something Americans had dreamed of since Detroit starting ...

With the Federal-Aid Highway Acts of 1954, 1956, 1958, and 1959, the Eisenhower Administration greatly increased federal funding for the Interstate system and established the Highway Trust Fund to ...

On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation funding the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System (IHS)--something Americans had dreamed of since Detroit starting ...

The Interstate Highway System soon turns 70: How it transformed America and the urgent need to modernize. Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate ...

The Interstate Highway System at 50 August 1, 2006 • By Steve Mitchell, Managing Editor • Bookmark + During the 1919 transcontinental convoy, soldiers use a winch to pull a truck out of a ditch.

In fact, the Interstate Highway System turns 61 years old this year, and I would suggest that the massive concrete monument to the automobile which snakes around this region is officially a historic ...

Although its true genesis can be traced to a 1939 report to the US Congress, what we know of today as the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System began construction 60 years ago this week -- August ...

The vast interstate highway system that I followed for much of my journey, championed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was created in large part by the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956, which ...

The Interstate Highway System soon turns 70: How it transformed America and the urgent need to modernize. Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate ...

Today, the interstate highway system stretches over 48,000 miles. Since Eisenhower's time, these roads have aged. In 2025, the interstate highway system turned 69.