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To: Slagle who wrote (771)9/24/2005 2:33:35 AM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) of 218594
 
Interstate system has pluses and minuses.

Big minus was it use to screw up/socially engineer cities.

It was a big improvement in safety for auto travel - limited access and good, consistent design.

There has been extensives calls for better roads since the "Good Roads" movement of the 1900-1920s, which lead to the creation of the "Farm to Market" roads in many states.

Note that railroad track mileage reached sort of a peak by about 1900, and grew little since then, especially in the Eastern and Central US.

As for making people move around too much and too much migration, it is likely that a persons prespective on this depends on where one was in the social structure.

I also believe it was and is consititutional - the highways qualify as "Post Roads" under Article 1, Section 8.
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