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This may be an over simplified version but it's not that crazy to imagine that after fighting a world war where maneuver warfare and mass logistics became even more important than before the USA would want to work on improving those capabilities.
What's more crazy is how it absolutely fucked up communities of color and ruined so many lives in the name of segregation labeled as "progress."
Still, Eisenhower as president, looking through the lens of a general, saw the need for an efficient means to move men and material in war and how great it would be for the peacetime economy too.
At least that's my understanding but I'm open to correction.
Nope. Look up why napoleon³ did it in paris. Same thing.
There's a bit of tye 'moving military shit' thing, but Eisenhower was jniquely positioned to know how trash roads were fpr that. We still use trains today. And we as a culture and government hate trains.
Roads are great when you need to move something only a few miles and every family has a car or cars and the suburbs are getting built out.
It wasn't just for military use, agreed, I just know that was part of it.
Was largely for militsry use, just not in the way you think.
Well highways do make sense as a concept, having a network of highways between major urban areas and other places of interest is good.
What doesn't make sense is having highways EVERYWHERE, making them more than 3 lanes in either direction (even this is a sign that you have way too much traffic and need to move that onto railways), and especially running them through urban areas.
Only someone dumb or evil does those things.