I seriously doubt that this highway will sever interstates. They'll just use underpasses or overpasses.
We were told the reason for the Interrsate Highway System was indeed for increased mobility of troops. But with an ocean on each coast, a Normandy-like invasion would be extremely unlikely and mass troop movements to combat it an even more remote possibility.
No, the system was built to give the federal government control over interstate transportation and movement. We were sold a bill of goods. Just as the Feds give schools money then tell them how to spend it, they built highways and then proceeded to regulate their use.
I know someone will say my tinfoil hat is on too tightly, but I believe we are once again seeing "a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object", only this time the "object" is a one-world-government. This transportation corridor would be a concrete (no pun intended) method of dividing the USA in half and allowing our enemies better opportunities to take over individual states.