Roll Call: Corless: A New Vision for This Century

From Roll Call: 

Every few generations, innovations in transportation spur a revolution in how people and goods move around, with profound implications for how and where we build our cities and towns, and ultimately how we live.  In the 19th and early 20th centuries, federal policies reshaped our still-young country by actively promoting the building of railroads and the settling of vast swaths of new territory. In 1956, when gasoline was 20 cents a gallon and babies were booming, President Dwight D. Eisenhower initiated the largest public works program in history with the Interstate Highway System, an ambitious network of coast-to-coast superhighways that would help reshape the American landscape.