The Eisen­hower National Sys­tem of Inter­state and Defense High­ways cel­e­brates 50 years of chang­ing the land­scape.

“When we get these thruways across the whole coun­try, as we will and must, it will be pos­si­ble to drive from New York to Cal­i­for­nia with­out see­ing a sin­gle thing.”John Stein­beck, Trav­els With Charley, 1960.