{"id":1024,"date":"2006-07-12T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/highways-byways-etc\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T06:36:33","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:36:33","slug":"highways-byways-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/highways-byways-etc","title":{"rendered":"Highways, Byways, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, George Will offered a tribute to the Interstate Highway System<\/a>, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer:<\/p>\n

Eisenhower’s message to Congress advocating the interstate system began, “Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods.”<\/p>\n

No legislator more ardently supported the IHS than the Tennessee Democrat who was chairman of the Senate Public Works subcommittee on roads. His state had benefited handsomely from the greatest federal public works project of the prewar period, the Tennessee Valley Authority, which, by bringing electrification to a large swath of the South, accelerated the closing of the regional development gap that had stubbornly persisted since the Civil War. This senator who did so much to put postwar America on roads suitable to bigger, more powerful cars was Al Gore Sr. His son may consider this marriage of concrete and the internal combustion engine sinful, but Tennessee’s per capita income, which was just 70 percent of the national average in 1956, today is 90 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, a 3-ton slab of concrete fell inside Boston’s Big Dig tunnel, killing a passenger in a car<\/a>. Evidently, this is not connected to the Big Dig concrete fraud case<\/a>. But after going $12 billion over budget, you can imagine that corners had to be cut some<\/em>where, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, George Will offered a tribute to the Interstate Highway System, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer: Eisenhower’s message to Congress advocating the interstate system began, “Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods.” No legislator more ardently supported the IHS … <\/p>\n

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