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The Interstate Highway System will likely be the most significant and expensive single infrastructure project ever undertaken by the federal government of the United States. The Apollo program, NASA's ...

Pretty much everyone who owns a car in the U.S. has driven down a highway at least once in their life. Without getting into semantics such as the difference between highways and freeways, these long ...

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

Highways are a huge part of our everyday lives in the United States, but could the traffic pollution they cause be shortening our lives? Myles Bess explores the health impacts of freeways and looks at ...

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With billions of dollars available to improve transportation infrastructure, states have a chance to try new strategies for addressing congestion. But some habits are hard to break. The Katy Freeway ...

Adopt-a-Highway signs are a ubiquitous fixture on United States roadways, and there’s a good reason why: States save millions of dollars each year by turning over trash pickup to groups that actually ...

America's interstate highway system is one of the country's greatest infrastructure achievements, but it also inflicted great harm on minority communities. Now the Biden Administration is attempting ...