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Peter Norton: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving

The Strong Towns Podcast

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We've Got a Complete Interstate Highway System

The Interstate Highway Project that was launched in 56 was supposed to be over by 72. It took another 15 years at least, and it ended up costing over $100 billion. Some of these people were quite alarmed from a business point of view that the Cold War was ending. They were looking for a different customer, but they really liked the federal government as a customer. The trouble is you're describing what could have been in the 1990s," he says.

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