Since then, the Highway Performance Monitoring System has remained unchanged. It has been unable to leverage the technologies agencies may have adopted in the 27 years since.

In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944, which asked the government's road agency to establish a "National System of Interstate Highways." ...

The highway system forever changed the urban and suburban landscape. Now that it was easier to drive farther distances on safe roads, people started to move out of the cities and into the suburbs.

In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944, which asked the government's road agency to establish a "National System of Interstate Highways." ...

Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System is about to turn 70. Skip to content NOWCAST WPBF 25 News at 11 p.m.