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Connecting a Continent: The Rise of the United States Interstate Highway System
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Connecting a Continent: The Rise of the United States Interstate Highway System

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Preferred Shares Podcast.

Lawrence Hamtil, of Fortune Financial Advisors, and Douglas Ott, of Andvari Associates, were the primary researchers for this episode.


In this episode

  • The Federal Aid Road Act of 1916

  • Route 66

  • Strong road advocate Cyrus Avery

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Influences of the Trans-Continental Motor Truck Trip and German Autobahn

  • The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956

  • Quantifying the enormity of resources needed to build the interstate system

  • Opposition to the interstate program - scandals, corruption, inefficiency, displacement, and the continually contentious topic of billboards

  • Looking back on the total economic benefits from the roads programs

Total Receipts for Highways, The Highway Capital Problem, USDT, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Program and Policy Planning, 1975

1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Archives, 1919
1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Archives, 1919
"'B' - off the road" 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Archives, 1919
"Helping along a 'B'" 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy., Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Archives, 1919
White House Conference on Highway Safety, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Archives, 1954

Episode resources

Additional reading

Curious to see what else we’ve been working on? Below are some pieces we’ve written independently that we think you’d like:

Andvari Q1 2024 Letter: Kelly Partners, CoStar, and Rates, Douglas Ott, 4/4/2024

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