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Have paved highways spread unwanted toxins and death to creations animals?

April 2nd, 2011 2 comments

1956

WASHINGTON, June 29—President Eisenhower set into motion a record $33,480,000,000 road-building program today by signing the bipartisan authorization bill that Congress sent him Tuesday. Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce, immediately announced the allocation of $1,125,000,000 among the states for the first year of what he called “the greatest public-works program in the history of the world.”

After the war, General Eisenhower used the autobahn many times while helping to build a peace that would prevent Germany from returning to military adventures.

In At Ease, former President Eisenhower said:

The old convoy had started me thinking about good, two-lane highways, but Germany had made me see the wisdom of broader ribbons across the land.

He added:

This was one of the things that I felt deeply about, and I made a personal and absolute decision to see that the nation would benefit by it.
Isn’t that something ProP. Doggone shame isn’t it?!

I’ve driven the autobahn Bilbo.

It puts our highways to shame.

It’s also a shame we couldn’t find a better material with which to construct roads.

We used to use cobblestones,
which is much more eco-friendly.

In fact, it’s more durable and better in many ways.
There’s many streets in old LA where you can see where they laid asphalt over the existing cobblestones.
The asphalt has deteriorated and crumbled with age,
while the cobblestones underneath are as good as the day they were laid down..