Eisenhower Overpass Traditional Cache
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In the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973, Congress named a transcontinental highway after President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Because Congress wanted to commemorate the route of the U.S. Army's 1919 convoy, the Eisenhower Highway doesn't follow a single highway. Instead, it follows the following combination of highways roughly approximating the 1919 route:
• I-270 between the Capital Beltway & I-70 in Frederick MD
• I-70 to I-25 in Denver
• I-25 to I-80 at Cheyenne, Wyoming
• I-80 to San Francisco
President Eisenhower's adherence to the vision of American mobility was most certainly the main driving force behind the creation of the modern Interstate Highway System. The Federal Highway Acts of 1954, 1956, and 1958 had as their impetus Eisenhower's insistence that Congress and the administration act swiftly to address this Nation's severe infrastructure problems.
The late President demonstrated tremendous conviction to a vision of safe and expansive highways. From the moment he assumed the Presidency, Eisenhower's aspirations for an efficiently mobile America translated into significant advances, paving the way toward a modern highway system. Among Ike's many, many lasting contributions to our Nation, none has more profoundly changed the shape of American life than the legacy of a modern system of highways.
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