Nothing those evil people would do can surprise me. I live not to far from the I-35 super highway running through the center of Texas. Close it, I’d love the sound of silence.
I live a couple of blocks from I-35 South, this town would probably die without it.
I agree.
In the U.S. we have ‘Numbered Highways’ (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways or Federal Highways) and these highways but they have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.
Interstate Highways, created by President Eisenhower, and their rights of way are owned by the state in which they were built. The last federally owned portion of the Interstate System was the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on the Washington DC Capital Beltway.
About 70 percent of the construction and maintenance costs of Interstate Highways in the United States have been paid through user fees, mostlyfuel taxes collected by the federal, state, and local governments. To a much lesser extent they have been paid for by tolls collected on toll highways and bridges.
Trivia for some.