The Size of the Job

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The Size of the Job

2023-06-01
By United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Series: FHWA Highway History Website Articles

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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Contributors:

Weingroff, Richard F.
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Construction History Interstate Highways
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Web Document
Right Statement:

Public Domain
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Abstract:

In 1961, the Bureau of Public Roads issued a summary of what it would take to build "the greatest peacetime public works program in history." Referring to the 41,000-mile Interstate System as it was then designated and its completion date in the early 1970s, the summary offered comparisons that conveyed the size of the job:
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The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68673/dot_68673_DS1.pdf
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