• The History of Tennessee’s Road System

  • Mar 15 2021
  • Duração: 43 minutos
  • Podcast

The History of Tennessee’s Road System

  • Sumário

  • Highway See is brought to you by the Tennessee Infrastructure Alliance, which advocates for sustainable funding for road-building and other infrastructure needs in the state. TIA works with public and private interests to promote “safety, mobility, economic competitiveness, and overall quality of life” through well thought out infrastructure projects.
    In this episode, host Chris Hill explains the factors of how Tennessee roads came to be.
    • The evolution of roads: from Native people’s footpaths and wildlife’s buffalo traces, to wagon trails and eventually paved interstate highways.
    • The evolution of roadbuilding: from “road-making bees” enlisting rural men and women with pick axes to a more industrial and bureaucratic system complete with federal environmental standards. 
    • Economic drivers for roadbuilding, including agricultural transport that demanded farm to port access. 
    • President Eisenhower's Federal Highway Act of 1956, which was the first major impetus to get federal money to states to build an interstate system across the country.
    • How roads are paid for in Tennessee through a “pay as you go” system of taxes.

    Links:
    • Highway See: https://www.highwaysee.com/ 
    • Tennessee Infrastructure Alliance: https://www.tninfrastructure.org/
    • Now Hiring Tennessee: https://www.nowhiringtn.com/work 

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