From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My question is this: why didn't they require standards that would allow
current highway infrastructure to be used in time of war? Maybe the
government was (is) arrogant enough to think that nobody would consider, or
succeed, in invading US soil?
As I recall, they were. Back in 1952. It's been over 50 years since.
The recent evacuation fiascos prove that our highway system is inadequate
for the population density that it supports - at least in an emergency
situation.
For the population and numbers of cars on the roads in Eisenhower's day,
they were state-of-the-art. Too bad the roads that made up Route 66 no
longer exist in their original form except here and there, or you'd see the
difference.
Pat,
Born 1939
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