New York's Highway System
Author : Todd R. Feigenbaum
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
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Author : Todd R. Feigenbaum
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Page : 150 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
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Author : David T. Hartgen
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Express highways
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Author : New York (N.Y.). City Planning, Mayor's Committee on
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1938
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Author : New York (State). Department of Transportation
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Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Transportation
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Author : Michael R. Fein
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
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Tells the surprising story of how road construction helped to pave the way to the modern American state. Shows how the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing population changed political order from local to state and ultimately to federal governance.
Author : Tom Lewis
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Interstate Highway System
ISBN : 9780140267716
In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis tells the monumental story of the largest engineered structure ever built: the Interstate Highway System. Here is one of the great untold tales of American enterprise, recounted entirely through the stories of the human beings who thought up, mapped out, poured, paved - and tried to stop - the Interstates. Conceived and spearheaded by Thomas "the Chief" MacDonald, the iron-willed bureaucrat from the muddy farmlands of Iowa who rose to unrivaled power, the highway system was propelled forward through the pathbreaking efforts of brilliant engineers, argued over by politicians of every ideological and moral stripe, reviled by the citizens whose lives it devastated, and lauded as the greatest public works project in U.S. history.
Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : HMH
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 054754913X
Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times). It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and roadside rest stops, a familiar route for commuters and vacationing families. But during the twentieth century, the interstate highway system dramatically changed the face of our nation. These interconnected roads—over 47,000 miles of them—are man-made wonders, economic pipelines, agents of sprawl, uniquely American symbols of escape and freedom, and an unrivaled public works accomplishment. Though officially named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this network of roadways has origins that reach all the way back to the World War I era, and The Big Roads—“the first thorough history of the expressway system” (The Washington Post)—tells the full story of how they came to be. From the speed demon who inspired a primitive web of dirt auto trails to the largely forgotten technocrats who planned the system years before Ike reached the White House to the city dwellers who resisted the concrete juggernaut when it bore down on their neighborhoods, this book reveals both the massive scale of this government engineering project, and the individual lives that have been transformed by it. A fast-paced history filled with fascinating detours, “the book is a road geek’s treasure—and everyone who travels the highways ought to know these stories” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Highway Laws
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Highway law
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Part I. Highway classification is studied of primary state highway systems, which comprise the principal interstate and intrastate routes of all states and territories. Part II. A comparative analysis is presented of statutes pertaining to system classification below the state primary level -- state secondary highways, local rural highway systems / country, town, and township/, and municipal highway systems.
Author :
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
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Publisher : Aashto
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Express highways
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