“”o public road, you express me better than i can express myself.” – walt whitman
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“”O public road, You express me better than I can express myself.”
– Walt Whitman
The 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy
U.S. Federal Government Support for Interstate
Roads
• The National Road – 1818 to 1852
• Good Roads Act of 1916
• Federal Highway Act -- 1921
Thomas McDonald and the Bureau of Public Roads
What is Good for GM is What is Good for America?
• Alfred P. Sloan and the Highway Users’ Conference – 1930s
• The Rise of the So-called “Road Gang”
• The Replacement of Trolleys with Buses in American Cities
• Robert Frank. The Americans : photographs. Introd. by Jack Kerouac. InfoNew York : Grove Press, 1959.
Mussolini and the Autostrade in Italy – 1930s
Hitler, Mass Motorization, and the Autobahn – 1930s
The Pennsylvania Turnpike, 1940
LA Freeways – Lloyd Aldrich, 1938
