Sixty years ago, the United States embarked on one of the most ambitious and successful undertakings in the history of the federal government. In June 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed ...

Infrastructure; Federal Highway Bill Funded Nearly 110,000 U.S. Road and Bridge Improvements. ARTBA outlines the benefits of the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act as a Senate ...

Authorization for federal spending through the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) expires on September 30, 2021. While such “highway bills” typically last five years due to the long-term nature of ...

Federal-Aid Highway Act, June 26, 1956. By Andrew Glass 06/26/2012 04:25 AM EDT. On this day in 1956, Congress approved the Federal-Aid Highway Act, widely known as the National Interstate and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most funding was from the 1956 Federal Highway Act. The county's first superhighway was built in 1957-60 at a cost of $43 million. Most funding was from the 1956 Federal Highway Act.

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.

Arkansas is sharing a Federal Highway Administration office with Mississippi due to federal staffing cuts, the Arkansas Department of Transportation's chief of administration said Wednesday.