Decades of Highway Construction & Community Destruction

– by Jimmie Briggs and Melissa Stanton, AARP Livable Communities

America’s interstate highway system was created by bulldozing through thousands of homes, businesses and neighborhoods. The impact of those losses continues to this day.

Read the full article at aarp.org/livable-communities/getting-around/info-2023/before-the-highway-introduction.html

The federal highway system as of June 1958. From Library of Congress