Sentences with phrase «new interstate highway system»

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

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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.

New York state banned tractor - trailers from most of its major interstate highways, including the entire length of the 570 - mile Thruway system from New York City to the Pennsylvania border in western New York.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- New York state has banned tractor - trailers from most of its major interstate highways, including the entire length of the 570 - mile Thruway system from New York City to the Pennsylvania border in western New York.

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 bhighway industries has issued a new report on the nation's Interstate Highway System, calling it an aging and underfunded network of roads and bHighway 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.

With roots that include the breakthrough 1955 and 2005 models, the new 2015 Chrysler 300 takes the nameplate's style and sophistication to new levels and highlights six decades of ambitious American ingenuity through iconic design proportions and inspired materials, world - class quality and craftsmanship, best - in - class 31 miles per gallon (mpg) highway fuel economy, plus class - exclusive innovations — including a state - of - the - art TorqueFlite eight - speed transmission now standard on every model, the segment's most advanced all - wheel drive (AWD) system, award - winning Uconnect Access services, all - new and segment - exclusive 7 - inch full color driver information display (DID) and the newest generation Uconnect systems — putting boulevards and interstates on notice once again.

A central theme of the Gallery's exhibition is the increasing mobility of the art world as a result of new modes of transportation including jet aviation and the interstate highway system during the late 1950s and 1960s, when artists, dealers, and works of art moved more swiftly between the coasts and Europe and with increasing regularity.

Virginia Dwan, founder of leading avant - garde galleries in Los Angeles and New York, was a force in a nation made mobile by commercial airlines and the interstate highway system.

Creating a new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the railroads, the interstate highway system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to installing catalytic converters and scrubbers, or phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.