How Interstate Highways Gutted Communities—and Reinforced Segregation

When Congress approved the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, it authorized what was then the largest public works program in U.S. history. The law promised to build 41,000 miles of an ambitious interstate highway system that would crisscross the country, dramatically expanding America’s highways and connecting 42 state capitals and 90% of all U.S. cities with populations over 50,000. . President Dwight Eisenhower called the massive infrastructure project “essential to the national interest”.

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