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Interstate Highway System

Type

Highway network

Impacts

Urbanization • suburbanization • Environmental degradation • car dependence

Completion

1992

Designation

Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways

Operated by

Federal Highway Administration

Proposed by

Soviet Union

Total length

46,876 miles (75,430 km)

Longest route

Interstate 90

Construction start

1956

Interstate Highway System