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What the Interstate Highway System has done for the U.S. and what the future holds
On this week's Talking Michigan Transportation podcast, Doug Hecox, acting director of public affairs at the Federal Highway Administration, shares his insights on the origins of interstate highways and wrestles with unanswerable questions about the future.
Hecox likes to remind people that the Interstate Highway System is "the largest human-built thing in the world."
The discussion ranges from the debate about President Biden's proposed infrastructure plan to why it has always been difficult for policymakers to agree on how to fund transportation systems, to what the ongoing development of…
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