It’s amazing how someone can look at a basic set of facts and come up with completely the wrong conclusion. Such is an article in The Atlantic blaming urban poverty on highways. “City planners,” says ...

Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.

In 1956, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the $25 billion program that launched the Interstate Highway System. The law, which encouraged highway construction across the ...

Luckily for city planners who wanted to keep their cities healthy, there was federal money available to anyone who wanted to put in modern highways. While the 1944 Federal Highway Act only offered ...

Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe announced Monday the appoint-of Francis C. Turner, 40-year veteran of the Bureau of Public Roads, as the new Federal Highway Administrator. Turner, whom a ...

The roots of the interstate system go back to the 1930s, when General Motors, AAA, and other industry groups formed the National Highway Users Conference to influence federal transportation policy.

The editors explain the mechanisms used in concert with the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, including federal, state, and local housing legislation, that limited housing and economic ...

At a glance, it is obvious that the eventual design of today’s Interstate 95 and Interstate 10 were settled as early as 1946, a decade before passage of the Federal Interstate Highway Act of 1956.

Title I of the federal Housing Act of 1949 covered most of the cost of clearing certain neighborhoods for urban renewal and redevelopment. The 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act provided subsidies for ...

BISMARCK - A long-term highway bill passed by Congress this week contains more than $1.3 billion for North Dakota and gives the green light to more than 100 transportation projects that were at ...

BISMARCK - A long-term highway bill passed by Congress this week contains more than $1.3 billion for North Dakota and gives the green light to more than 100 transportation projects that were at ...