Monday, October 8, 2007
Building the Interstate Highway System
Richard Nixon reveals information that it was originally built and used for terrain, Indian trails, cattle trails, and land division lines. Now, the highway system has been transformed to meet metropolitan needs for traffic, transcontinental movement, and increased horsepower. However the highway system has never really transformed physically to meet those demands. He cites statistics of how the horsepower and mileage of transportation vehicles have increased dramatically, yet the roads are not increasing in structure at the same rate. He also discusses the death tolls and casualties, the wasted hours in traffic, and the civil suits that clog up the courts. The plan specifically aims to solve the problems of speedy, safe, transcontinental tavel, intercity communication, access highways, congestion, parking, bottlenecks, and farm-to-market-movement.
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The problems that Richard Nixon reveals about the death tolls and casualties, the wasted hours in traffic, and the civil suits that clog up the courts, all prove that the new interstate highway system should be built, because these are problems that all of the people have, everyday. Since, Nixon is trying to help the nation to be more speedy, safe, transcontinental travel, intercity communication, access highways, congestion, parking, bottlenecks, and farm-to-market movement, then it seems that he truely cares about the future. Which makes others see the benefits of his proposal.
You did a good job mentioning all the specific details that Nixon cites. It was good that you pointed out how the roads were built with completely different intentions than what they are used for now, and they had not been transformed to meet those new needs.
His idea of building for the future is a great idea. Instead of just accomodating for the amount of people that drive at the moment, he was thinking about the upcoming years and the problems they will be facing then. It is a great idea because it would save so much money in the long run.
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