On 29-Jan-12 17:56, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
On 29-Jan-12 14:02, wrote:
On Jan 29, 9:59 am, Bruce wrote:
Trivia question (no fair Googling the answer): What was the primary
justification/purpose of the Interstate Highway System?
Wasn't it originally a Department of Defence project, inspired by the
autobahn network in Germany?
It was never of Defense Dept project.
They didn't build it, but they designed it.
The seeds of the IHS were planted during WWI, when the Army found the
railroads insufficient for their needs and started planning on truck
convoys. A trial run in 1919 from Ft Meade, MD, to San Francisco, CA,
was led by one Lt. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The trip took two weeks, which
the Army considered a failure; Gen. Pershing submitted a map of proposed
national highways to Congress in 1922 to rectify the situation.
Pershing's map was the basis for the Interstate Highway System that
Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually built.
Today, a similar convoy can move from coast to coast in three days.
All right, Stephen; we all know that story. The Army is still going to
design transport around civilian trucks of the day. In any event,
anyone reasonably familiar with geography and populations would have
come up with a similar map.
But you are trying to draw a direction connection between A and B;
it's tenuous at best.
If you don't see a direct connection between Lt. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, there's
really nothing I can do to help you.
S
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