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Maps: Published and annotated highway and traffic maps compiled and maintained by the bureau's central office and related to the federally aided system of interstate and defense highways, including the Inter-American Highway, the Mississippi Valley Parkway, and the Mount Vernon Memorial Parkway, 1920-65 (4,485 items). Published county and state ...
In the mid-1950s, the Eisenhower administration and Congress erupted in a sharp partisan debate over how to pay for the novel National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, slated to become the most expensive and expansive public works project in United States history.
In this article, however, Professor Seely contends that, in the highway industry, the introduction of uniform standards and specifications in the early twentieth century was spearheaded by federal engineers in the Bureau of Public Roads—the government's highway agency—through a variety of indirect and cooperative arrangements with state ...
The mix of articles in these early issues included articles bylined by officials of the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR, as the agency was called beginning July1, 1918), but many were by State highway officials, often with a focus on dealing with damage from trucks carrying heavy loads.
research program conducted by the federal government's Bureau of Public Roads (BPR). Road building early in the century resembled many fields in en-gineering that depended on empirically derived understandings of nature; these fields were "low technology" when compared with the science-based "high-tech" areas of chemistry and electricity ...
This guide provides advice on where to look for records of public rights of way, roads and other highways in England and Wales. The National Archives is not the best place to start...
In the Federal Highway Act of 1938, Congress directed the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) to investigate the feasibility of such a system. Toll Roads and Free Roads, the BPR’s 1939 report, recommended a 26,700-mile system, saying, “Although . . . they would represent as a system less than 1 percent of the total rural highway.
