In June 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Highway Act, which created what we have come to know as the Interstate Highway System.

On this day in 1956, Congress approved the Federal-Aid Highway Act, widely known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. The legislation allocated $24.8 billion — about $164 billion ...

Nearly 110,000 new federal-aid highway and projects moved forward over the past five years as a result of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act enacted in 2015, shows new research from ...

Highway spending in the United States between 2008 and 2011 was flat, despite the serious need for improvements and the big boost to state highway funds from the Recovery Act of 2009. A comparison of ...

Shawn Wilson, president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and Peter Norton, a University of Virginia professor, talk about the 1956 Federal Aid ...

Allowing states to opt out of federal highway funds would give them maximum flexibility to avoid federal constraints and serve their states’ needs.

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 ...

Wasteful, inequitable, and bristling with burdensome regulations, the Federal Highway Program is in dire need of reform. Turning back control of funds to the states would relieve many of the ...

The analogy of this proposal is the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which enabled the building of the Interstate Highway System with Federal and local taxpayer funds to facilitate the rapid ...

The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 Shawn Wilson, president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and Peter Norton, a University of Virginia professor ...

Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System is about to turn 70.

Although the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 authorized designation of a "National System of Interstate Highways," the legislation did not authorize an initiating program to build it.