In september 1955, bpr released general location of national system of interstate highways, known as the yellow book because of the color of its cover. Eisenhower national system of interstate and defense highways federal highway administration. Eisenhower system of interstate and defense highways eisenhower interstate system yellow book interstate s. Interstate highway system academic dictionaries and. This mapped out what was to become of the interstate system. Lehigh valley expressway system allentown highways. The yellow book officially known as the general location of national system of interstate highways, mapped out what became the interstate system. If you have one you would like to share, please drop us an email or a message on social media. Most of the links in the interstate highway system of the united states were built in the 1960s and 1970s.
List of interstate highways simple english wikipedia. There are 70 primary interstate highways in the interstate highway system, a network of controlledaccess freeways in the united states. Dec 17, 2012 history and information on the expressway system in the erie area. Here are the proposal maps for the interstate system in six cities in pennsylvania. General location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban areas designated in september 1955 scale not given. The interstate highway system is partially financed through the highway trust fund, which itself is funded by a federal fuel tax. And the bureau of public roads issued a book, general location of national system of interstate highways, that showed where interstates would be located in and around the nations largest metropolitan areas. Links to the eisenhower interstate system 50th anniversary.
The subject of divided highways is broader than the subtitle implies, as it also sses federal aid for road building before eisenhowers initiation of the interstate highway program. Eisenhower had been told that the book documented the legislative history of the interstate system, and he did not read it. Eisenhower interstate highway system federal highway administration. Familiarity with symbols on traffic signs is important for every road user in. General location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban areas designated in september 1955. General location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban areas designated in september 1955 washington, dc.
Primary interstate highways are the major interstate highways of the united states and have a one or twodigit route number. The majority of students in our introductory and advanced geography courses today cannot remember life before the interstate. Contributors to the interstateguide can be found at the acknowledgments page. The fhwa has been exploring the economic impact of interstate highways.
Eisenhower and was first authorized by the federal aid highway act of 1956. Bureau of public roads released the yellow booka national blueprint to build out the 41,000mile interstate highway. If you zoom in on a web map, you can probably find out, but the scale may so large that only be a mile or two is visible on the screen. History and information on the expressway system in the philadelphia area. The plans that were drawn up for the interstate system at that point were published in a book called the yellow book. Jul 10, 2019 in his state of the union speech in january 1956, eisenhower tried again. Chapter 3 how interstate highways created republican suburbs clayton nall 1 first draft. The links are provided here as a courtesy to readers. A year earlier, in 1955, the general location of national system of interstate highways, informally known as the yellow book, was published. General location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban. This file is a direct scan by adam froehlig from the following book bureau of public roads september 1955.
Number designations were not yet assigned to the routes. Public roads 100th anniversary an evolving partnership. Quite simply, the interstate highway system is the longest and largest engineered structure in the history of the world, and it has enormously influenced every aspect of. By that time, eisenhower was president, and supporters of an. Assisting in the planning was charles erwin wilson, who was still head of general motors when president eisenhower selected him as secretary of defense in january 1953. While federal legislation initially banned the collection of tolls on interstates, many of the toll roads on the system were either completed or under construction when the interstate highway system was established.
Infrastructural things can move slowly and indecisively even where interstate highways are concerned, writes petroski. Apr 25, 2016 8 fascinating facts about the roads you take every day. Interstate highways are part of what is officially known as the dwight d. Problems in implementing the highway safety improvement. The industrial park, the regional shopping mall, and the interchange economic zone with its motel, fast food, and. Pennsylvania interstate highway ends yellow book interstate proposals. The interstate highway system was championed by president dwight d. Excluded from this article are threedigit auxiliary interstate highways in varying stages of planning and construction, and the planned expansion of existing primary interstate highways.
Of course, exact alignments werent shown and the state highway departments which determined actual routings faced many. After a long period in the nineteenth century in which the federal government did nothing to. The yellow book the yellow book, official title general location of national system of interstate highways, including all additional routes at urban areas designated in september, 1955 yellow book, is the original plan for the interstate system. No list can cover all related web sites, but the web sites listed here contain links to many other web sites that should give readers a wide range of resources. The lowest numbers are in the west and in the south.
Contributors to the interstate guide can be found at the acknowledgments page. A second extraterrestrial is reported to be currently in c. General location of national system of interstate highways, including all additional routes at urban areas designated in september, 1955. Eisenhower system of interstate and defense highways eisenhower interstate system yellow book interstates. Yellow book describing the cdrom, part of the series of rainbow books that specify the cd. Eisenhower national system of interstate and defense highways dwight d. One web site contains information about the yellow book, the influential 1955 publication by the u. The 48,000 miles of interstate highway that would be paved across the. The yellow book contained the august 1947 map of the interstate system plus maps showing the designated interstate mileage in major cities.
List of interstate highways simple english wikipedia, the. Bpr also published general location of national system of interstate highways, which became known as the yellow book because of the color of its cover. We are also interested in obtaining updated photos of interstate highway endpoints to complete this project. On 91208 ncdot decided to remove i40 from the urban. For the toll section, the nc 540 shield is accompanied on top by a yellow toll banner. The formal title was general location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban areas designated in september 1955 referred to as the yellow book because of the color of its cover. Interstate highways congestion policy it is the policy of the indot to limit operations which reduce the number of lanes, reduce the width of lanes, or.
History and information on the expressway system in the erie area. The bureau of public roads bpr was originally a part of the united states department of. Dec 07, 2015 the interstate highways that dont follow the rules. Ikes interstates at 50 anniversary of the highway system recalls eisenhowers role as catalyst. General location of national system of interstate highways.
Jan 14, 2014 what the interstate highway system should have looked like. One web site contains information about the yellow book, the influential 1955. Is there a map, book, or website that shows noninterstate. Interstate80 omaha yellow book i80 interstate680 north freeway i480. Based on this state data, the 1955 yellow book, general location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban areas, showed the general routings almost exactly as built between cities. North carolinas new and future interstates the following is a list of interstate highways in north carolina either proposed, planned, partially completed, or completed within the past 5 years.
The publication in 1955 of the general location of national system of interstate highways, informally known as the yellow book, mapped out what became the interstate highway system. Interstate highways use a numbering scheme in which primary interstates are assigned one or twodigit numbers and shorter routes are assigned threedigit numbers where the last two digits match the parent route. Chapter 3 how interstate highways created republican suburbs. In divided highways, tom lewis tells the monumental story of the largest engineered structure ever built. About 2,900 miles 4,700 km of toll roads are included in the interstate highway system. Eisenhower national system of interstate and defense highways. Quite simply, the interstate highway system is the longest and largest engineered structure in the history of the world, and it has enormously influenced every aspect of american life. General location of national system of interstate highways, including. When building the united states interstate system, how did. Maps were published in the yellow book for many urban freeway plans. The publication in 1955 of the general location of national system of interstate highways, informally known as the yellow book, mapped out what became the. General location of national system of interstate highways, nicknamed yellow book the set of telecommunications recommendations, issued by the international telecommunication union standardisation sector in 1980, is referred to as the yellow book. However, earlier in 1947, a plan was devised by then bureau of public roads the forerunner to todays federal highway administration. Though i originally preferred a system of selffinancing toll highways, and though i endorsed general clays recommendations, i grew restless with the quibbling over methods of financing.
This file is a direct scan by adam froehlig from the following book. Allentown, erie, harrisburg, philadelphia, pittsburgh, and reading. This page has links to city scans from the yellow book, which was a book from 1955 detailing the thenproposed interstate highway system. I495 added around boston city map from the 1955 yellow book of interstate highway system plans. Bureau of public roads released the yellow booka national blueprint to build out the 41,000mile interstate highway system. The yellow book is reported to be a physical record of the communications from an extraterrestrial, who was recovered from a downed ufo and kept in custody by mj12, before he died several years later.
History and information on the expressway system in the allentown, bethlehem, and easton area. This congressional bill ushered in the era of interstate highway construction. Opponents to the funding mechanism in 1955 were now agreeing to. The north leg of the innerbelt was built in the late 1950s and signed i71. Besides the main interstate system connecting the metropolitan areas of the country, the yellow book also included maps of the proposed urban interstates within many of those metropolitan areas. Official mapquest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. Bpr was instructed to draw up plans for this new system, a process that wasnt completed until 1955 with the release of the publication general location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban areas designated aka the yellow book. Divided highways is the best and most important book yet published about how asphalt and concrete have changed the united states. They are assigned one or twodigit route numbers, whereas their associated auxiliary interstate highways receive threedigit route numbers. Charles erwin wilson, who was still head of general motors when president eisenhower selected him as secretary of defense in january 1953, assisted in the planning. General locations of routes of the national system of interstate highways, including additional routes into. Links to the eisenhower interstate system highway history.
History and information on the expressway system in the scranton and wilkesbarre area. Interstate highways and racialized space in omaha, nebraska juliet silberstein amherst college. Maps from the 1955 yellow book of plans for the interstate highway system. More commonly, these freeways that stretch in every direction across the united states for a total of over 47,000 miles are known as the interstate highway system or simply. Rest areas are to be provided on interstate highways as a safety measure, an american association of state highway officials policy. Candidate, department of government, harvard university, 1737 cambridge street, cambridge ma 028. Even 2, 4, 6, 8, or 0 route numbers are given to eastwest routes, with the smaller numbered routes in the south and bigger numbered routes in the north. Yellow book interstate proposals many people know or have heard of the interstate legislation that was proposed and passed in 1956. The yellow book plan for the interstate highway system. General location of national system of interstate highways including all additional routes at urban areas. Threedigit interstate highway numbers represent beltways or loops, attached to a primary interstate highway represented by the last two numbers of the beltways number. General location of national system of interstate highways, nicknamed yellow book the set of telecommunications recommendations, issued by the international telecommunication union standardisation sector in 1980, is referred to as the yellow book because of the color of their covers.
What the interstate highway system should have looked like. The book, which showed 122 urban interstate routes proposed for cities in 43 states, was instrumental in convincing legislators of the systems value to their constituents. The interstate highways that dont follow the rules atlas. Infrastructural things can move slowly and indecisively even where interstate highways are. Highways running northsouth are odd numbered, while highways running eastwest are even numbered. The publication in 1955 of the general location of national system of interstate highways, informally known as the yellow book, mapped out what became the interstate system. Roadway signs in the united states increasingly use symbols rather than words to convey their message. Bureau of public roads that contains maps showing the general routing of urban interstates. In the united states, future interstate highways include proposals to establish new mainline one or twodigit routes to the interstate highway system. Lackawanna valley expressway system scranton highways. Symbols provide instant communication with roadway users, overcome language barriers, and are becoming standard for traffic control devices throughout the world. History and information on the expressway system in the pittsburgh area. Here is one of the great untold tales of american enterprise, recounted entirely through the stories of the human beings who thought up, mapped out, poured, paved and tried to stop the interstates. Philadelphia expressway system philadelphia highways.