Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Common English terms for it are freeway, motorway, and expressway. Every driver, however, knows it as The Interstate. Always expanding and changing, the Interstate began in 1956 as an ambitious project to unite the country. While it...
And of course, the system was touted as a way for all Americans to travel with fewer traffic jams and more efficient routes. With no at-grade crossings (that is, intersections), the system used overpasses and underpasses to allow for seamless, stop-free, high-speed travel. There are now...
Interstate system route numbering (Stephen Summers; FHWA and AASHTO info) I-695 Maryland (link) 30.57 miles [2]; a full beltway around Baltimore. The brainchild of Baltimore County's first planner, Malcolm Dill, in 1948, [8] the freeway began construction in 1954. A good portion was ...
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) descends below grade through the neighborhood of South Brooklyn. The six lane freeway receives an influx of traffic from Interstate 478 southbound as it advances from the Union Street overpass toward Atlantic Avenue (Exit 27). 06/13/05 ...