How a Texas coalition is working to ensure US 287 becomes an interstate

A new study revived a decades-old push to upgrade US 287 into a full interstate, a $24.5 billion proposal supporters say ...
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The US plan to nuke its interstate highways into existence

In the 1950s and ’60s, planners seriously weighed bulldozers against nuclear blasts to carve highways across the U.S.

The number logic behind the United States’ highways, and how travellers can use it

The United States' numbered highway system, established in 1926, unified travel with a logical numbering convention for US Highways and later the Inte ...

Texas may get a new interstate running from the coast to the Panhandle

US 287 currently spans from Port Arthur in Southeast Texas to Amarillo in Northwest Texas, connecting two strategic military ...

$24 billion overhaul considered to turn US 287 into major highway

A $24 billion project to transform U.S. 287 into an interstate highway that stretches hundreds of miles across the state and ...
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The Interstate Highway System soon turns 70: How it transformed America and the urgent need to modernize

Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System is about to turn 70. Love them or hate them. The interstate highways are the arteries of our ...

Could Texas get a new interstate? New proposal connects East Texas, Fort Worth and Amarillo

The $24.5 billion project would transform U.S. 287 into an Interstate. The transformation is outlined in a feasibility study ...