The U.S. Highway system was one of the biggest Public Works projects ever. It took 40 years to complete and is 46,876 miles long. This could be seen as the Eisenhower administrations greatest feat. The highway system was built to eliminate unsafe road and traffic jams to allow better cross country travel. There is an unknown fact about the highway system though, every so often there is a 1 mile stretch of straight road to be used as an airstrip, the ditches between lanes are supposed to be defendable positions, and in the case of a nuclear attack it would allow people to quickly evacuate the target areas. Generally speaking the odd numbered highways run North to South and even numbered highways run East to West. Alaska and Hawaii have their
