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The Interstate Highway System

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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I've Only Rad Ther O Lin Stuff

In the 19 tens a few states started doing extensive freeway building within their states and codifying the how the roads needed to be. States did that, and that kind of pressured the federal government to get going. And then as as states did this in the 19 tens, federal government, serc kik and then the next, next big obstacle is world war too. There's sort of a mith about the system,. Some people believe it was exclusively for defense, and then we accidentally got the benefits of all the cities in the us. Being connected. They said, like, there'll be big commercial, economic benefits o this. And also, ye, we need our troops to be

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