Posted on 12/01/2014 5:07:17 AM PST by WhiskeyX
This page has links to city scans from the "Yellow Book", which was a book from 1955 detailing the then-proposed Interstate Highway system. Besides the main Interstate system connecting the metropolitan areas of the country, the Yellow Book also included maps of the proposed urban Interstates within many of those metropolitan areas. The following links, grouped by state, show those proposed urban Interstates from 1955:
The national system: Toll roads suggested in 1938 A Master Plan for Free Highway Development, dated 1939 Interregional Highways, dated ca. 1943 Proposed National System of Interstate Highways, August 2, 1947 Existing and then-proposed toll roads in the U.S., dated January 1, 1955 Text from an associated article on incorporating toll roads into the Interstate system, dated May, 1955 Approved route numbering for the Interstate System, dated August 14, 1957 Additions to the proposed system, October 17, 1957 Text from the associated article detailing the 1957 additions Updated route numbering for the Interstates, approved June 27, 1958 Interstate System addition requests, dated March 30, 1970
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Let your fingers do the walking.
We drove US roads before there were Interstate highways; seems to me, we’ve never seen the huge number of turkey vultures that we see today.
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