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... the 46,000 miles of America's Interstate Highway System .... These multi-laned, guard-rail-clad corridors by now seem timeless, like pre-Cambrian mountains bolted to the landscape. So it's hard to believe that America's freeway system turns 50 this summer ....
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...207986,00.html
I thought this might be worthy of discussion, particularly in light of the pace at which most Americans travel the highways now, and the seemingly endless road construction that is occurring is most major metro areas.
I mean, even the Disney-Pixar animated flick, Cars, spends a lot of time noting the affect of the Interstate Highway System and the decline in "small towns" as highways bypassed around them.