Interstate Highway System

Biden administration rolls out power grid plan for electric trucks

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has selected 12,000 miles of freight-heavy interstates and the country’s largest container ports to begin a 16-year plan to deploy battery-charging and hydrogen-refueling stations for electric trucks.

The four-phase National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy, unveiled Tuesday, initially targets local and regional “return-to-base” trucking operations, first- and last-mile delivery, and port drayage while gradually accommodating long-haul trucking.

A core...

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Route 66: How the Mother Road helped connect America

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Judge orders halt to work on teardown of Interstate 81 through Syracuse

The demolition of the Interstate 81 viaduct that slices through Syracuse, New York, that was set to start soon has been put on hold through a court order.

New York state Supreme Court Judge Gerard Neri, sitting in Onondaga County where Syracuse is located, earlier this month granted the request for an injunction sought by a relatively new group called Renew 81 for All. The suit was filed in late September against the New York State Department of Transportation and several of its leading...

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FreightWaves Classics/ Infrastructure: I-44 is a key travel corridor

This was the view of the I-235/US-77 and I-44 interchange in early March 2020. (Photo: oklahoma.gov/odot)

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Introduction

Interstate 44 (I-44) is a major interstate highway in the central United States. It is nominally an east-west road because it is even-numbered, its path is actually amore southwestern-northeast in alignment. 

When it was originally built its western terminus was in Oklahoma...

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FreightWaves Classics/ Infrastructure: Groundbreaking held for I-805 in San Diego

Construction crews install falsework for a south-facing direct access ramp. (Photo: keepsandiegomoving.com)

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On September 25, 1967 (55 years ago yesterday), a groundbreaking ceremony was held at El Cajon Boulevard and Boundary Street in San Diego for Interstate 805 (I-805). Planning for the highway dated to 1956, the same year the Interstate Highway System (IHS) was first funded and construction began. 

At that time, San Diego County had around 600,000 residents. By 1970,...

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FreightWaves Classics/Leaders: Tallamy was a state and national highway leader  

Bertram D. Tallamy. (Photo: cyburbia.org)

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Bertram D. Tallamy, who served as a leading figure in the development of the U.S. highway network, died on September 14, 1989, in Washington, D.C., at the age of 87.

Born on December 1, 1901, in Plainfield, New Jersey, Tallamy was the son and grandson of general contractors. He earned a degree in civil engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1925...

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FreightWaves Classics: Cross-Country Motor Transport Train reaches San Francisco

The U.S. Army Cross-Country Motor Transport Train. (Photo: U.S. Army)

On September 6, 1919, the U.S. Army’s Cross-Country Motor Transport Train arrived in San Francisco. Its journey spanned 62 days, and after leaving Washington, D.C. on July 7, the Motor Transport Train traveled 3,251 miles. 

On July 7, 1919, at the temporary Zero Milestone marker on the Ellipse south of the White House, dignitaries gathered to launch the first ocean-to-ocean Truck Train Convoy. (Photo: Dwight Eisenhower Library)On July 7, 1919, at the temporary Zero Milestone marker on the Ellipse south of the White House, dignitaries gathered to launch the first ocean-to-ocean Truck Train Convoy.
(Photo: Dwight Eisenhower Library)

Col. Charles W. McClure, the convoy’s commander, formally confirmed...

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FreightWaves Classics/ Infrastructure: General locations of first interstates announced in 1947

A scene that is too common on interstate highways across the nation. (Photo: (Photo: Walter Parenteau/Flickr)

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On August 2, 1947 – about nine years before President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the legislation that formally established the nation’s Interstate Highway System, or IHS – the general locations of the first designated routes for the network of “super-highways” were announced.

This...

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FreightWaves Classics/ Infrastructure: I-195 opened in Virginia in 1975

Cars and trucks near downtown Richmond, with cars taking the I-195 exit. (Photo: VDOT/ggwash.org)

On July 15, 1975, the first segment of Interstate 195 (I-195) in Virginia’s state capital of Richmond was opened. The new interstate spur also became known as the Beltline Expressway. 

The 3.5-mile highway is a spur route of Interstate 95. Within the Interstate Highway System (IHS), “a spur route is a short highway serving as a branch of a major highway in a large metropolitan area.” Generally, spur routes are designated by three-digit numbers; the last two of those digits consist of the number...

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FreightWaves Classics: Cross-country U.S. Army convoy began 103 years ago

A section of the Interstate Highway System under construction in Colorado. (Photo: archives.gov)

It’s hard to believe that in 1919 – just over 100 years ago – the vast majority of the nation’s roads were unpaved. At that time, only 12% of the country’s rural roads had been “surfaced.” However, that definition included roads that were mostly ill-maintained and had dirt or gravel surfaces. Moreover, there was no federal authority overseeing construction; and what few decent roads there were remained unconnected.

World War I ended on November 11, 1918. Just a few months later, the U.S. Army’s...

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