Highway Chronicle Chapter XI:
Post-War
Road Construction Boom Shapes the Way We Travel
World War II
focused new emphasis on the importance of roads as military supply and
evacuation routes.
President Roosevelt signed
the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 authorizing the creation of a “National
System of Interstate Highways,” but this initiative would remain under-funded
until President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway
Act of 1956. This legislation provided for one of America's largest public works programs, which
was the construction of our
multi-lane interstate highway system, and the modernization of state and local
routes.
Interstate
highways eventually built through Franklin County include I-70 (1962), I-71
(1966), I-270 (1976), and I-670 (2003).
Major federal
and state routes include Broad Street (S.R. 16 & U.S. 40), Cleveland
Avenue/Westerville Road (S.R. 3), Dublin-Granville
Road (S.R. 161), Hamilton Road (S.R. 317), Harrisburg Pike (S.R. 3 & U.S.
62), High Street/Indianola Avenue/Portsmouth-Columbus Road (U.S. 23), Jackson
Pike (S.R. 104), Johnstown Road (U.S. 62), London-Groveport Road (S.R. 665),
Main Street (U.S. 40), Riverside Drive/Livingston Avenue/Columbus-Lancaster Road
(U.S. 33), and State Route 315.
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