Over the years, I have studied many of the roads that make up Broome County. It all began about four decades ago when a patron of the then-Binghamton Public Library asked me what was the meaning ...

America's Interstate Highway System cut through the hearts of many downtowns when it was built in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving a legacy of... 'Freeway fighters' want to remove urban highways and ...

In 1956, the U.S. Congress introduced the Federal Aid Highway Act, the largest public works project in American history to that point. It called for the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate ...

When the national interstate system began in the 1950s, no one considered the need for the far north-central states. As the upper Midwest has grown, there seems to be a missing interstate, namely, an ...

While Erie's first superhighway was being built, the public was impatient for it to open. Portions of Interstate 90 in Erie County were basically finished in the fall of 1959 but the highway wasn't ...

The cover of "City Limits" and author Megan Kimble. (Courtesy of Crown Publishing Group and Lisa Woods) America's Interstate Highway System cut through the hearts of many downtown areas when it was ...

America’s Interstate Highway System cut through the hearts of many downtowns when it was built in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving a legacy of inequality and urban impoverishment. Today, a new generation ...