Sentences with phrase «interstate highway system»

He cited the U.S. interstate highway system, the Human Genome Project and the lunar landing as historical examples, as well as the PC and Internet revolutions.

«In the late 1800s, we opened up the country with the transcontinental railroad; in the 1950s, we again opened the country to cars and trucks with the United States Interstate Highway System.

Similar criticisms were levied at the U.S. government in the 1940s, when the debate was over whether billions should be spent on building a national interstate highway system.

Here's how it works: Cadillac sent out a bunch of specially - equipped cars and they mapped every mile of the U.S. and Canadian Interstate highway systems.

As the four - lane Interstate Highway system began to be built in the late fifties and sixties, it connected to the two - lane West Virginia Turnpike.

You have pretty good airports all around the country and just over the past 10 years, you've seen a real interstate highway system emerge in China as well.

President Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System fixed that; now Heyeck is one of a growing number of people calling for the electricity equivalent — a network of power «superhighways» crisscrossing the continent.

The disadvantage is that it's like building the entire interstate highway system before the first car could travel on it.

In the mid-1950s, the gas tax helped fund the new interstate highway system, and it became clear that it was here to stay.

Fifty years after President Eisenhower created the U.S.'s first interstate highway system, China is embarking on its own road trip.In an eye - opening piece in this Sunday's New York Times, Ted Conover examines the explosion of roads in China and the country's newfound and seemingly unconditional love of driving («Capitalist Roaders»).

To service that sprawl and to move people quickly in time of war, you need highways; that is why the bill that created the American interstate highway system was actually called The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 - they are exactly that, defense highways, designed to get people outta town in a hurry.

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Saturday, November 3, 2012 Road construction adds one more dangerous element to the urban interstate highway system that is already home to a vast number of hazards.

The condition of Route 66 was getting poorer each year, and the US Government finally decided to remove the road from the United States Highway System and replace it with the more modern and functional road called Interstate Highway System.

«Spanning the communities of Surrey, Delta and Richmond, Highway 99 connects the Metro Vancouver region to the U.S. Interstate highway system, the Tsawwassen BC Ferries terminal, Port Metro Vancouver's Deltaport container terminal, and to YVR.»

The Highway Trust Fund was established in 1956 to finance the United States Interstate Highway System, other roads and bridges.

The National Interstate Highway System was not constructed by offering low - interest short - term loans to driveway paving companies so they could lay asphalt in thirty - foot long projects.

Cadillac sent out a bunch of specially - equipped cars and they mapped every mile of the U.S. and Canadian Interstate highway systems

Turning them into a publicly owned network, like today's interstate highway system, would give the government the responsibility to create clear, fair rules for private companies wishing to use them.

The Massey Tunnel is a critical link in the Highway 99 corridor, which connects our region to the U.S. Interstate highway system, the B.C. Ferries terminal in Tsawwassen, the Deltaport container terminal, and Vancouver International Airport in Richmond.

Planning was under way throughout the nation to launch the interstate highway system that President Eisenhower, soon to be re-elected, had signed into law a few months earlier, and with it a new suburban America was born.

So at some point if relationships become strained between communities or there are other priorities, there is the risk that some or all of the interstate highway system would stop being built and no one will be building the roads the nation needs.

The caveat to this is since there is no government, there will be no law nor permanent policy passed regarding building and maintaining the roads, specifically the interstate highway system.

This would remove concerns about the upkeep of an interstate highway system for trade and national defense, but may raise other concerns that may be difficult for such a society to address, such as further horizontal integration.

That great Socialist, Ike Eisenhower, built the interstate highway system by adding it to a military finance bill.

Richardson praised Maloney for the investment in high - speed rail, saying it would boost the economy like the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad or the Interstate Highway System.

A group that includes representatives from the engineering, construction and highway industries has issued a new report on the nation's Interstate Highway System, calling it an aging and underfunded network of roads and bridges.

A solution could be a new high - voltage «backbone,» akin to an interstate highway system for the grid, according to the Department of Energy last year.

«The interstate highway system was not designed by individual states and glued together,» Brown points out.

The 22,000 - mile system would be to electricity what the interstate highway system is to transportation, enabling a different kind of energy economy suited for a carbon - conscious era.

Think about the Interstate Highway System or the Internet.

Relationsbetween the two superpowers deteriorated very quickly, leading to anincreasingly rapid nuclear arms race and a dangerous standoff in the ColdWar.Domestically, Eisenhower began the modernization and integration of Americanroads into the interstate highway system, modeled after the autobahn, whichhe saw in Germany.

The Highway Trust Fund was established by the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 as a mechanism to finance an accelerated highway program, including construction of the Interstate Highway System.

As President Obama reminded us in his State of the Union Address, America built the Interstate Highway System and transcontinental railroad.

Even for those cars that technically surpass the 200 - mph barrier, that number is mostly theoretical because you need a tailwind and half the interstate highway system to eke out that last couple miles per hour.

To put this into perspective, let's just say you have the desire to explore every last mile of the U.S. Interstate Highway System.

[12] The building of the Interstate Highway System in the USA from 1956 made long - distance road transportation of goods more attractive.

Fast charging stations should be installed every 50 miles across the United States Interstate Highway System.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower is widely credited with being the driving force behind the building of the nation's interstate highway system.

Not very quickly, it turns out, giving rise to President Eisenhower's commitment to building the interstate highway system.

Still, even without a direct library reference, the Post article was endlessly useful in raising the possibilities, if accidentally — remember who mainly paid for the construction of the Interstate Highway System, with economic and defense benefits in mind.