“”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

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.Robert Frank.

Mussolini and the Autostrade in Italy – 1930s

Hitler, Mass Motorization, and the Autobahn – 1930s

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, 1940

LA Freeways – Lloyd Aldrich, 1938

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