Interstate Highway System

[ in-ter-steyt hahy-wey sis-tuhm ]

noun

1. Official_name Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. a network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 conterminous states, begun in the 1950s and estimated to carry about 25 percent of the nation's traffic: also established in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, but without physical connections to other states or territories. Compare National Highway System ( def ).

Example Sentences

Within a year, President Eisenhower had signed the bill that would create the Interstate Highway System as we know it today.

From Los Angeles Times

The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law established the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program known as NEVI, setting aside $5 billion to build new EV chargers along America’s sprawling interstate highway system toward Mr. Biden’s goal of installing 500,000 public charging ports by 2030.

From Washington Times

“The biggest investment of rebuilding America's infrastructure since President Eisenhower's rebuilding of the roads and highways and bridges and with the interstate highway system. And we've done the same now delivering clean water, high-speed Internet to every American, and cheaply,” Biden explained.

From Salon

“Disneyland was built when the interstate highway system was just getting started, and California was building the freeways,” Apgar said, noting that American families began taking road trips — a luxury that previous generations could not afford.

From Los Angeles Times

The interstate highway system cost $129 billion — roughly $290 billion in current dollars — and took 35 years to complete, running from 1957 to 1992.

From Scientific American