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    • Fast Facts: The 47,000-Plus-Mile U.S. Interstate System
      • Origin: Its official name, the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways, came about in 1990, but the system’s origins date back to a 1939 Bureau of Public Roads report to Congress called “Toll Roads and Free Roads” and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, which laid out the concept and specified a total system size of 40,389 miles.
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  2. May 27, 2010 · The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower on June 29, 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile system of interstate highways that Eisenhower promised would ...

  3. On October 15, 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed Public Law 101-427 changing the official name of the Interstate System to honor the President who did so much to bring it about.

  4. Section 7 of H.R. 4811 authorized designation of a 40,000-mile "National System of Interstate Highways." Who chose the word "Interstate" for the new system is unknown, but MacDonald's testimony makes clear why "Interregional" was dropped. Last updated: Friday, June 30, 2023.

  5. Dec 27, 2017 · Origin: Its official name, the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways, came about in 1990, but the system’s origins date back to a 1939 Bureau of Public Roads report...

  6. The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States.

    • November 11, 1926
    • U.S. Highway nn (US nn), U.S. Route nn (US nn)
    • 157,724 mi (253,832 km)
  7. Sep 12, 2019 · Despite having no direct land connections to the rest of the United States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico all have interstate highways. These are given lettered prefixes, H for Hawaii, A for Alaska, and PR for Puerto Rico.

  8. Highway History. Interstate System. Designating the Urban Interstates.

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