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The Simple Genius of the Interstate Highway System | Wendover Productions
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This video was made possible by CuriosityStream. Subscribe to their Nebula bundle deal at CuriosityStream.com slash Wendover to watch an exclusive companion video to this. It's really just four lanes, a median, and some on and off ramps.
The Interstate Highway System is no engineering marvel, no unprecedented undertaking, no massively innovative concept. It's a simple idea—one that arose since the earliest days of the automobile. It's not exciting, which is why it often goes so under-appreciated.
Take the interstates away, though, and you have a weaker nation. You have one with dramatically starker regional divides, one with increased decentralization. More specifically, you have a nation absent of a noticeable portion of the late 1900s economic development and transformation.
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