Kyle Harrison
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Interregional Highways (1944)
TL;DR — The 1944 report Roosevelt sent to Congress that sketched the national highway network, a decade before the Interstate Highway Act.
House Document No. 379, 78th Congress: a message from the President transmitting the National Interregional Highway Committee’s report recommending a national system of interregional highways. The plan of roughly 40,000 miles became the basis of the Interstate system funded in 1956.
What it is: a primary government document, 108 scanned pages with maps. The posted copy was in a members-only area of the Eno Center for Transportation’s site; this copy is from the Wayback Machine.
Where this came from
- r/obscurePDFs post, March 2020 — “Presidential Report Outlining the US Highway System”. Routing record: The obscurePDFs Subreddit
- Link as posted: https://www.enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/membersOnly-1944-Interregional-Highways.pdf
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
108 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.