Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction by Erick Guerra islandport press is a traveling workshop instructor

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Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction by Erick Guerra islandport press is a traveling workshop instructorThe world's largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and triumph of engineering. President Eisenhower's 1956 Interstate Highway Act is often praised as a model of successful bipartisanship. Today, the extensive damage wreaked by the creation of the highway system and the ills of car dependency are more widely