“We used similar methods to those used historically to assess railroads and interstate roads. If you're at the center of a bunch of track with spurs going off, you're highly accessible.”
Morton O'Kelly
“Interstates and parkways ... we recommended going to 70, and some of the four-lane non-interstate, non-parkway roads we recommended going to 60 miles per hour from 55. Many of the rural interstates are now six lanes and not four lanes like they were at that time, which, in my opinion, makes them even safer.”
Jerry Pigman
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.”
Charles Kuralt
“The scene of devastation was staggering, ... In Cameron Parish, you can't see where the [Interstate] 10 bridge begins and ends.”
Kathleen Blanco
“You combine the Interstate 35 corridor, ... and now you're looking at a population that has the spending power.”
Char Miller
“There were people that had been under the bridge there at Interstate 10 for two days, since Monday and they were just dehydrating, there were serious people they were evacuating from the hospitals,”
Chris Eubanks
“There were people that had been under the bridge there at Interstate 10 for two days, since Monday and they were just dehydrating, there were serious people they were evacuating from the hospitals.”
