The Simple Genius of the Interstate Highway System

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@grimftl 2 года назад

My dad used to say, "The interstate is incredible. You can drive non-stop from the Atlantic to the Pacific and not see a damned thing."

@zach11241 2 года назад

Pretty sure these roads were built to efficiently get you to your destinations, not for being a destination. If your dad didn’t see anything interesting it’s because he couldn’t be bothered to take exits and actually visit places. He chose to complain because of his lack of forethought.

@GolfClash2718 2 года назад

@@zach11241 I'd rather drive US-50 over the close by interstates of 64, 44 and 70

@kennethlink9 2 года назад

@@zach11241 your comment is literally what his dad wanted to say. That it's so efficient that you won't see anything. All you're doing is agreeing while repeating what he said, but in more words/slower Edit: pretty ironic you insulted someone's foresight but didn't follow your own advice lol

@TheDJ42 2 года назад

@@GolfClash2718 Well yeah. If I want the scenic route I'd take US-89 over I-15 but if I'm looking to get from Vegas to Idaho in less than a day I'm going to take I-15 every time.

@williamrgrant Год назад

This. The interstates are so boring.

@1.4142 2 года назад

For comparison, Pete Kostelnick ran across America on foot with a world record time of 42 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes from San Francisco's City Hall to New York's City Hall in 2016.

@chrislambert9903 2 года назад

Is that total or with rest

@1.4142 2 года назад

@@chrislambert9903 In total, running 3,067 miles. He slept 6 hours a night to cover more ground and faced snow storms, 35 mile per hour winds, and a major motor accident destroying his support vehicle.

@natearmstrong8340 2 года назад

Let’s think though, that was probably done on this road

@TheChainChasers 2 года назад

Incredible! I could MAYBE do that on a bike or something after years of training but it would take me a month or 2 just to run to alabama from Georgia and I'm only 30 miles from the border lol.

@GardenGuy1943 2 года назад

No, he died in Nevada

@IBeforeAExceptAfterK 2 года назад

It's funny how back in 1919, trains were considered the dominant form of transport, with roads in desperate need of improved infrastructure. Now it's the opposite.

@IBeforeAExceptAfterK 2 года назад

I was referring more to the transportation of people rather than goods. While I'm sure America's freight industry has done a fantastic job of keeping their tracks in good shape, you can't deny that the infrastructure for passenger service in the U.S. is absolutely abysmal.

@ronitjalihal2586 2 года назад

@@IBeforeAExceptAfterK thats nost likely because there isnt enough demand for it

@IBeforeAExceptAfterK 2 года назад

@@ronitjalihal2586 It's hard to create demand for something most Americans have never tried, or whose only experience was with a system so heavily neglected that it's only being held together with chewing gum and duct tape.

@homiej2548 2 года назад

@@IBeforeAExceptAfterK Its also hard for trains to compete with planes in the distances Americans often travel.

@IBeforeAExceptAfterK 2 года назад

@@homiej2548 You're forgetting about daily commutes and trips between cities which are relatively close to each other. That's where rail's niche is, not traveling across the country. Trains are supposed to compete with cars, not planes.

@charlespletzke8311 2 года назад

Fun fact: the interstates are numbered so that even numbers are west-east running and odd run north-south. Three digit interstates are loops for a given interstate. The lower number interstates are further south and/or west (i5 runs in the west coast states whereas i95 runs east coast states).

@poisondog88 2 года назад

Not always though. i99 runs through Altoona, PA, and is farther west than i81, which runs through Harrisburg. i74 runs through Southern North Carolina, and is farther south than i64, which runs through Richmond, VA.

@charlespletzke8311 2 года назад

@@poisondog88 I believe though that the majority of i74 is further north than i64, but the bit in nc is just much further south and on its own not connecting much. But there are definitely exceptions

@SputnikCrisis 2 года назад

Surprised he didn’t mention this, the interstate is literally a grid across the US. I 10 from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, I 90 from Seattle to Boston. Pretty clever

@Nolan.Grimes 2 года назад

And there’s a logic to the auxiliary routes too. If it is an odd number (I-390) it leaves the main interstate but doesn’t reconnect. If it’s an even number (I-405) it loops back to the main interstate

@Nolan.Grimes 2 года назад

@@poisondog88 I-99 is an exception only because it was built so much later than everything else. The original plan from the 50s had 79 and 81, and there’s no other odd numbers between those, so they chose 99. Rep. Bud Shuster, the main guy that pushed for I-99, also used to ride trolley 99 when he was a kid so he liked that number

@daviddavis4885 2 года назад

People: You can’t put a price on a human life!!! US Department of Transportation: $11.7 million

@1MinuteFlipDoc 2 года назад

it's a fake/contrived number.

@falconeagle3655 2 года назад

It is a surprisingly well thought number. High enough to not offend anyone. Low enough to be usable as a metric. And I think we can all agree that in reality most human life is worth much less than that if we consider their economic and social impact.

@MCTogs 2 года назад

If I'm worth that much then why don't I get that money???

@supernenechi 2 года назад

@@MCTogs Because that is only the value of your life as it stands for a safety perspective. Demanding that amount of money "since that's how much they say you're worth" only demonstrates a total lack of understanding what it even means

@MCTogs 2 года назад

@@supernenechi sounds like government propaganda to me, if the department of transportation says I'm worth 11.7 million and I don't get a single penny then I might as well become a safety hazard

@meowmeowbobo 2 года назад

I like how the highest ranking military officer in one of the greatest war mankind has fought and his conclusion was: "Man, infrastructure is really important"

@NeonMako 2 года назад

Logistics is what wins wars, so it makes sense that he took that away from his wartime experience. I heard from some serving soldiers that if you want big bucks when you go back to civilian life you go for a logistics related job role, as there is a lot of demand, and thus high wages for experienced people in that field once you get out.

@bthemedia 2 года назад

6:20 Know where Gen Eisenhower “stole/copied” the invention of the Interstate highway system? From the leader of Germany in WWII (he who shall not be named lest censored) 🤬

@Zilentification 2 года назад

There is an old saying, "Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics." Many of the best Generals in history were such because they took that to heart.

@laracroft938 2 года назад

He wasn't the highest rankng alone. He shared the rank with Macarthur who was the supreme allied commander of pacific theatre and became 5 star general 2 days before Eisenhower.

@BTScriviner 2 года назад

@@bthemedia And those Germans stole the ideas for the Nuremberg laws that disenfranchised the Jews from the Jim Crow laws of the South.

@kinggator8231 2 года назад

Fun fact: the I-5 was built through the Central Valley instead of along California's Pacific Coast so that it was less likely to be targeted in a naval/aircraft bombardment.

@metrofilmer8894 2 года назад

I never thought of that but it makes complete sense now that you mention it 🤔

@billcereske7211 2 года назад

@@metrofilmer8894 Considering the times and that they were military roads, that makes perfect sense. I remember that the original DARPA net lines were constructed near the Interstates, for the same reason. That became the Internet, of course.

@knoahbody69 2 года назад

The other thing is that Interstates, being flat and wide, can be emergency runways if air force bases or airports are attacked.

@CaseNumber00 2 года назад

I have driven up PCH, a lot of time I was white knuckling my steering wheel through whindy roads where one side is a 200 foot cliff up and the other side is a 200 foot clip to the ocean the ocean. I think that is a reason as well. The cliffs wouldnt be so bad but how bad in snaked got to me.

@knoahbody69 2 года назад

@@CaseNumber00 It's not ideal for a four lane highway. It's routinely blocked by landslides. Not ideal to begin with.

@Ragingcap1212 2 года назад

Eisenhower gets seldom recognition for what he did for science in america...he was a visionary....father of NASA...father of interstate

@inigobantok1579 2 года назад

He's the embodiment of pax Americana

@thelastpagan4999 2 года назад

Pity that the interstate is crumbling for how poor the maintenance in certain are is, Nasa is gettingittle funding so it can't really innovate as much and science is getting disregarded more and more

@vatanak8146 2 года назад

@Account NumberEight based and redpilled

@teamcybr8375 2 года назад

@Account NumberEight And that makes the accomplishments of that era lesser somehow?

@tski3458 2 года назад

@Account NumberEight good one

@noumanintown 2 года назад

That Eisenhower reveal was fantastic. What a legend.

@janedoeYT 2 года назад

ikr? I was like, "no way, no way... YES WAY HOLY SHIT"

@westrim 2 года назад

@@janedoeYT I take it you like Ike.

@vucub_caquix 2 года назад

The last truly great Republican.

@fatrooster4632 2 года назад

@@vucub_caquix The absolute Chad even warned us about the military-industrial complex before he left

@bthemedia 2 года назад

6:20 Yet Gen Eisenhower “stole/copied” the invention of the Interstate highway system from the leader of Germany in WWII… he who shall not be named lest censored. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn

@Vanalovan 2 года назад

“Oregon has no major export ports.” Shots fired PORTland!

@richdobbs6595 2 года назад

If the interstate system didn't exist, there would be that many more ports! It is crazy to truck from Oregon to Oakland just get to a major port. Even if you get rid of the Jones Act, chances are much greater that goods would flow from Oregon and Washington to California via ship.

@commisaryarreck3974 2 года назад

I mean Portland is a shithole

@EvanAviator 2 года назад

@@commisaryarreck3974 no one asked

@WarlordM 2 года назад

@@commisaryarreck3974 make Portland weirder

@Snipeyou1 2 года назад

@@commisaryarreck3974 is Portland a shithole? There I did ask him

@crazycoasterboi8176 Год назад

Another cool thing: they have long sweeping turns so you need to pay more attention and it’s harder to doze off. Every 5-10 miles though, they have a long straight section which is there in case the military needs to set up an emergency air base. There’s thousands of potential spots to turn into a runway all around the country. Brilliant design. Also, the interstates in West Virginia have parts that don’t comply with the regulations because they were built before the regulations came out and it would take too much work and money to change it.

@Lardianyt Год назад

Shoot, that is so cool to learn.

@sidneyblack1036 Год назад

Were the roads built with that intention or did we just adapt to the way things were after they were built?

@crazycoasterboi8176 Год назад

@@sidneyblack1036 the regulations can into effect in the 60s or 70s and most roads have been built since then or been upgraded. The West Virginia interstates are harder to upgrade because it involves removing part of the mountain.

@jz3572 Год назад

@@sidneyblack1036 Interstate 64(east of Beckley) 79 and 77(the turnpike). The terrain does not make it simple to build a traditional Interstate there at all.

@riggs20 Год назад

That part about requiring a straight section at regular intervals for the military is actually a myth. A quick Google search will bring up sites from the Federal Highway Administration, Reuters, etc. debunking it. Which is too bad, because it sounds pretty cool.

@randomguy3814 2 года назад

Fun fact: Interstate 95 is the most recently completed interstate, having been completed in 2018 with the completion of the I-95/Penn Turnpike Interchange Project in Bristol, PA.

@mrcrazyasian 9 месяцев назад

i live within I-95 and I-495’s reach. Wow!

@zackcinq-mars2129 2 месяца назад

Portions of I-73 in SC are still being worked on today!

@acaciasiobhan9205 2 года назад

“A 7-hour trip from DC to Maryland” Me, a Marylander: Did you just say SEVEN HOURS FROM DC TO MAR- you know what, that makes perfect sense and is still quite accurate

@matthewburr5075 2 года назад

My bro used to travel from Northern VA for work to Greenbelt where he lives which easily took 1 hour and half hours.

@rubenlopez3364 2 года назад

"...on a monday morning."

@stovexlvii3579 2 года назад

495 traffic is fucking horrible

@racerman7303 2 года назад

@@stovexlvii3579 I feel like we need to take infrastructure a step further and invest into more high speed trains. This could connect the country even more. Also it would reduce traffic a significant amount .

@usuallydead 2 года назад

Traffic on the parkway can be a real bitch, no foolin'.

@jackbates7467 2 года назад

It's a shame we didn't take more from the Autobahn network, not going through city centers, allowing for no speed limits where practical, actually adhering to lane discipline, etc...

@Bradley2806 2 года назад

You would have to put a much higher investment into pretty much everything road related. I guess they thought it wasn't worth it.

@roadrunner6224 2 года назад

For that to work you would also need to federalise driving standards. Your level of erratic driving is close to the Italiens, but with much bigger cars.

@Semellie 2 года назад

I don't know where you took that from, but the German Autobahns regularly go through city centres all over the place. Like, a lot. Also, lots of Autobahns actually do have speed limits, and the national debate on implementing an overall speed limit is getting ever closer to that being the case.

@homeofthemad3044 2 года назад

@@Semellie He said "No speed limits where practical"

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

Letting highways passing trough cities is something i never understood.. such a weird concept.

@Fools_Requiem 2 года назад

That 12 mile run through the Rockies on I-70 is by far my favorite stretch of freeway and I've been on a lot. The next big infrastructure project has to be the upgrade to railways and the addition of high speed rail.

@romanrat5613 Год назад

It doesnt need to start big either, just start with HSR in the Acela corridor, then do Cali and Florida, and finally each coast and a trans-continental connection

@waltjisneychannel74 Год назад

Lol I just did the I 70 from Denver to gran junction today, Vail is def the most ghetto city in America 😂

@lukasnel4828 Год назад

So I think that there's not been a realization of the fact that high speed railways are slower and less efficient than flights at long distances especially across sparse terrain.

@romanrat5613 Год назад

@@lukasnel4828 HSR is, indeed, slower than airliners at say, cross country flights, however, they are more environmental. But nonetheless. What we need is HSR in the big metropolis areas. Northeast, Southeast, Texas triangle, West coast. Chicago hub. Way quicker, efficient, and environmental. And then we need much better regional rail. Every small town used to have passenger train service to the nearest big city, now it's mostly just heritage lines and freight. Look at Europe. There it is about the same conditions as what I mentioned above.

@Fools_Requiem Год назад

@@lukasnel4828 HSR beats out shorter trips, though. Seattle-Portland. Dallas-Houston. St Louis-Chicago-Milwaukee. Miami-Tampa. Etc.

@SvdSinner 2 года назад

You forgot to mention one important part of Eisenhower's life: His wife Maime was born and raise only about a mile from the Lincoln Highway. She fully understood how much of a lifeline having a trough road was to her upbringing.

@BorisBidjanSaberi11 Год назад

@@johnperic6860 did you learn anything from this video? Those roads don’t all connect to each other like this

@DugrozReports Месяц назад

Boone, Iowa.

@DugrozReports Месяц назад

@@BorisBidjanSaberi11 The Lincoln Highway was the closest thing to a trans-con highway back then. Its wasn't great, but it was the best avialable.

@grahamturner2640 2 года назад

Fun fact about the Interstates: On occasion, they were also used to experiment other things. The main one I know of the I-19, which was an experiment to see if America could convert to the Metric system. I was on it recently just to see it, and apparently, it's not too different from other Interstates, but most distance-related stuff is in meters/kilometers instead of miles. Exit numbers are based on the distance in kilometers (e.g. exit 101 is probably the last exit going north before you get to the I-10, even though the highway is only 62 miles long) and instead of mile markers, you get kilometer markers. The only thing that isn't in metric is speed limit signs, which are in miles per hour.

@AtomicBoo 2 года назад

I live in tucson, I use i19 and i10 daily, its cool having the only km interstste in the country.

@sirpicklestien1436 2 года назад

@@AtomicBoo i consider it kinda lucky and cool to have the only one in our entire country

@Maxime_K-G 2 года назад

The metric signs are completely off though. I measured them via Google Maps in the past and a simple 500 meter sign could be as much as 300 meters off, or more.

@charlespletzke8311 2 года назад

I think this exact topic is on a Half as Interesting video

@southwestclown1314 2 года назад

I been on it too and I think also they use Km’s for the Mexicans driving on it …I’m Canadian and we use km’s too. I was surprised to see it myself lol

@maxwellweiss9849 2 года назад

The man whose idea it was to not have any stoplights on these highways is probably basking in glory in the heights of Heaven.

@srirampatnaik9164 2 года назад

Highways don't have stoplights though. Thats why they're called highways. They're above the arterial roads

@VictorSneller 2 года назад

Probably Gilmore C. Clark, who basically followed the road logic of Central Park in Manhattan.

@tito_zz9217 2 года назад

@@srirampatnaik9164 A highway is just a large road connecting cities, so a state highway may have traffic lights

@ripred42 2 года назад

@@srirampatnaik9164 those are freeways, not highways. Freeways are limited access, highways may or may not be.

@srirampatnaik9164 2 года назад

@@tito_zz9217 Oh sorry, I confused it with expressways. But the interstates are essentially expressways?

@dennisg.3364 9 месяцев назад

This is one of my favorite videos you have done. People take out interstate for granted. It really wasn't all that long ago that they even existed. Late 1950's is nothing compared to others. Eisenhower was the man of his time!

@fgjr96way 2 месяца назад

IT would be long days, weeks and months to get things done quickly

@Redmenace96 Месяц назад

I'm with you. So few can remember a time without it.

@tommurphy4307 27 дней назад

@@Redmenace96 mainly because theyre all dead

@Thrifty032781 2 года назад

I-95 had this strange discontinuity near Philadelphia. You would drive up I-95, then turn south in this sort of upside down U. You are shunted over to I-295, then cross into New Jersey on I-195 and rejoin 95 on the New Jersey turnpike. They fixed this pretty recently --- fall 2018. I don't remember exactly how, but now I-95 connects to the Pennsylvania turnpike.

@thepeacemouse5316 2 года назад

"hey that guy in the convoy looks like Ike" "Oh it is Ike."

@michael_betts 2 года назад

We like ike.

@Zones33 2 года назад

@@michael_betts Ike for president, ike for president

@nitehawk86 2 года назад

I like.

@beback_ 2 года назад

Which one is he?

@cjc363636 2 года назад

@@beback_ Guy on the right, I think.

@dominicmariano9201 2 года назад

My father is a former military logistics specialist. He always told me that Ike's plan for the interstate system was to connect military bases, but also serve as emergency runways. This is really obvious on Oahu, where the interstates all terminate at military bases, and the section of H-1 near the airport is clearly engineered to accommodate landing a C-130 or C-17 cargo plane.

@EC-oe9bv 2 года назад

The runway thing is a myth. There are plenty of airports in the US to support emergency military traffic, which makes designing portions of the interstate for aircraft use unnecessary. The same cannot be said in Europe.

@bthemedia 2 года назад

6:20 Yet Gen Eisenhower “stole/copied” the invention of the Interstate highway system from the leader of Germany in WWII (he who shall not be named lest censored) 🤬

@dominicmariano9201 2 года назад

@IWT what is strahnet designation?

@dominicmariano9201 2 года назад

@@EC-oe9bv I'd never questioned that idea, but with its 6 air strips, your point makes sense even for Oahu.

@jamesdinius7769 2 года назад

@@bthemedia So what, the Germans built a national highway first, and no no other country is allowed to build one? Do you realize how idiotic that sounds. This video even acknowledges that the US Interstate was inspired by the Autobahn.

@nilesanders5110 2 года назад

I live in Topeka KS. We were very lucky to be one of the first places in the country to have interstate highway. In fact were the first to have the test mile. My Dad took us out to drive on the test mile. By 1962 we drove to Washington State and down the west coast, largely on interstate highway . Eisenhower was from Kansas and the first interstate runs through his hometown of Abilene. Stop in and visit the Eisenhower library.

@blakelowe9079 Год назад

Interstates serve defense purposes, too: If there are no suitable landing sites for military aircraft, for example if an invasion has disabled Air Force and civilian runways, planes can use the Interstate as a landing strip. I think there's a regulation that requires long, straight sections every hundred miles or so for this purpose.

@riggs20 Год назад

The requirement is actually a myth according to the Federal Highway Administration. Although I’m sure much of it could be utilized as a landing strip if, God forbid, it was ever needed.

@elichen7716 10 месяцев назад

In my personal experiences it felt like every 25 miles or so.

@alexm566 9 месяцев назад

Good luck doing it in WA state pot holes. Planes will be shredded.

@micahperson8477 6 месяцев назад

its a myth

@virgilwyatt4632 4 месяца назад

The "Eisenhower" Interstate Highway System's primary purpose initially, was to transport and move our nation's military from base to base and from coast to coast.

@jacob_tung 2 года назад

The construction of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon deserves a video of its own. The balancing of construction with environmental protection was truly amazing.

@simplyepic3258 2 года назад

That stretch of road is super impressive. I’d love to see a video on it

@Ronniezim 2 года назад

And at this current moment , we cannot keep it open due to mudslides ….

@dunidane5206 2 года назад

While super impressive and beautiful, the recent fires and continuing extreme costs of keeping it open make it clear we should have just gone south through Cottonwood and then back north along the river to rejoin the Colorado at Glenwood. Leave the train going through the canyon and add the biking path and parking locations for nature stops and sight seeing but upgrading to a full interstate through there was a mistake.

@JohnHallgren 2 года назад

@@simplyepic3258 I don’t have the exact links but believe a couple of semi truck driver videos on RU-vid by Trucker John show it reasonably well.

@Crazcosmopwnu 2 года назад

If only Cities Skylines was around back then so that they could've built the interstates with proper lane mathematics

@numenthehuman 2 года назад

Underrated comment 🤣

@aylim3088 2 года назад

Hugo there

@ErdTirdMans 2 года назад

It's so horky borky as is

@or2kr 2 года назад

Well and the willingness to develop and use alternatives like public transport and such. A city in CS that mainly relies on an interstate like system is almost always prone to congestion, except when you have replaced half the city with highways

@ihateregistrationbul 2 года назад

@@or2kr and increased taxes to pay for that public transit....

@austinedgemon8769 Год назад

As a resident of Salem oregon, I would just like to give a quick thanks to Dwight Eisenhower for all his hard work. We wouldn't be where we are today without him. Rest in peace.

@MalachiWhite-tw7hl 8 месяцев назад

One of the best Presidents, only appreciated in recent years it seems.

@Redmenace96 Месяц назад

There you go! Let's thank the good people who made it possible.

@Ascertivus 2 года назад

I grew up within a few hundred feet of the Interstate Highway System!! It was the sound to which I fell asleep at night, the reason a bit of soot could always be found in my windowsills, a focal point (on a map) in the part of town in which I lived, and a source of endless wonder and entertainment for me whenever my family and I drove over, near, or on it to get somewhere. I've always been quite fond of it; I've come up with a bunch of grand upgrade schemes like aqueduct-style bridges for it to travel on over a large valley near where my house was, re-routing to make the journey on it straighter and more level, instituting the use of "speed range" signs instead of sticking to speed limits... the works. However, I'd never taken the time to truly appreciate its simplicity and brilliance until watching this video. To the creator: thank you for creating this gem. I commend you for your work and am glad that somebody else finds these giant stretches of road fascinating and awe-inspiring.

@Xaqaria 2 года назад

I REALLY appreciate that you have moved to a model of sharing a companion video on Nebula vs. an extended version. With the extended versions I would debate if the frustration of scanning through the video to find the extra content was worth it. I usually wouldn't even try. With the companion video, it is clear cut and easy. I believe I have watched every one you've released. Please tell your peers they should try this as well. It's increasing the value of Nebula and my engagement with the app.

@platinum-or3y 2 года назад

amongus

@nafrost2787 2 года назад

I agree with you, even though I have a nebula subscription, I usually still watch from RU-vid because it is more convenient, and it is easier searching for a companion video rather than the extended cut which can be anywhere in the video.

@RyanBlakeKain 2 года назад

Completely agree, it was annoying trying to find the cut off point, especially because it was usually seemless

@HillelFriedler 2 года назад

fact check true

@GamingNinjaSheep 2 года назад

This is the reason I unsubscribed from Nebula. I got so tired of watching a video to completion on RU-vid, only to find out right at the end that I could have watched a better version on Nebula, but by that point it's not worth it anymore. This might actually make me resubscribe again.

@haydennorthcutt367 2 года назад

A good portion lumber in Oregon is shipped on trains. Oregon’s got a lot of railroad throughout. Railroad is how it should be done. Shipping less than a carload by truck is way less efficient.

@luke_222 2 года назад

Yep

@evandodson2509 2 года назад

Also, Oregon is largely a semiconductor economy -- lumber and other natural resources are overstated as its exports

@seanthe100 2 года назад

Depends on where the lumber is headed.

@Artuchu 2 года назад

And Oregon does have a port city, Portland,

@Sputmint 2 года назад

@@Artuchu The port of Portland has recently not operated as an export hub due to the longshorman's union causing shipping companies to move to California or Washington instead of striking a deal. This was in 2017. Some have come back, but most businesses are not taking interested in risking their supply chains again for the time being.

@Hankathan 2 года назад

Can't believe I've just been watching HAI all these years when gems like this were out there. Your Wendover Productions jokes finally got to me and I'm so glad they did. Amazing video!

@standardannonymousguy 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing! This was very rewarding to see summed up so understandably.

@FreewayBrent 2 года назад

I've driven about 60% of the Interstate Highway System. So many epic sections from I-70 out in Colorado and Utah (Glenwood Canyon, Vail Pass, The San Rafael Swell), to the Grapevine along I-5 in Southern California, the Virgin RIver Gorge along I-15, the Franconia Notch along I-93 in New Hampshire, Interstate H3 in Hawaii, I-90 through Snoqualmie Pass, and the list goes on. Great video. FYI, if anyone is reading this, I and my friend Jim upload a multitude of time-lapsed driving videos under our FreewayBrent and FreewayJim names. I also have some footage from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Cheers, Wendover Productions!

@bighorn9119 2 года назад

The US highway system is something beautiful

@cecilsdaniel 2 года назад

It's great to see the legends in here! As a traveler myself, I've enjoyed your videos over the past decade.

@robertschnobert9090 2 года назад

@@bighorn9119 the interstate system is communist and needs to be privatized and deregulated. It's inherently anti-american. 🌈

@bruhmcbruh4098 2 года назад

@@robertschnobert9090 what?

@gregessex1851 2 года назад

@@robertschnobert9090 😀

@joshdoeseverything4575 2 года назад

interstates between cities - fantastic. Interstates around cities - great (ring roads) interstates through city centers and urban neighborhoods (always low income) - DOG SHIT. The biggest failure of the interstate highway system is the insistance that freeways must go right through downtowns meanwhile taking up huge percentages of the total land available in an area already pressed for land. TRANSIT not urban freeways is the answer.

@InfinteIdeas 2 года назад

Yes, this is correct, but unfortunately a goal of the system in cities was to displace Black Americans

@gvi341984 2 года назад

Transit is extremely expensive

@InfinteIdeas 2 года назад

@UCglcCBgsID4MBH5PNqjvVQA he didn't plan every detail, and he stated his regrets about how it happened

@joshdoeseverything4575 2 года назад

@@gvi341984 yeah but 20 lane highways are free right ?

@Zones33 2 года назад

@@gvi341984 compared to highways, it is the more sustainable option. There isn’t a highway in existence that is profitable.

@Alex-is-a-daddy 2 года назад

As an engineer, driving thru Eisenhower tunnel on I 70 was a special moment to complete my coast to coast to coast road-trip. Super respect to the US interstate system, not only to the design and engineering, but also to the maintenance and vision. From China!

@doujinflip 2 года назад

I think China would have had a similar explosion of durable commerce had it not half-arsed the HSR lines; passengers and mail only pay so much, cargo is far more profitable. Imagine if those all those viaducts were beefy quad tracks carrying bidirectional freight while G trains blow past them 🚄🚂

@Alex-is-a-daddy 2 года назад

@@doujinflip HSR in China is start to shipping smaller packages. But the since the HSR is so important politically, there is not a chance that China will use if to carry freight. I am a railway bridge engineer I seriously think the HSR has been overly-babied for political reason. Building anything near, under and over it is such a painful process, that makes the HSR more or less inefficient. I do agree with you about the freight, we should build special HSR freight train to shipping high value cargo at 150mph, at least in some less important route. That makes the the train more profitable and more self sustainable

@TheClownfight 7 месяцев назад

Wendover doss it again! Thank you for all the amazing content

@matthew8505 2 года назад

Most Wendover titles: The Amazing Logistics of Today: The Simple logistics of

@FrozenBusChannel 2 года назад

*simple genius

@bthemedia 2 года назад

6:20 Yet Gen Eisenhower “stole/copied” the invention of the Interstate highway system from the leader of Germany in WWII (he who shall not be named lest censored) 🤬

@bthemedia 2 года назад

Breeze I suggest you read the actual history of the Autobahn... prior to “the party” it was the “Lincoln Highway” equivalent and small scale... the party made it a strategic military asset for WWII - much like DARPA made the Internet.

@bthemedia 2 года назад

Breeze here is a brief primer on Autobahn history - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZGQwXjE29fc.html

@bthemedia 2 года назад

@@breeze9819 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn

@Erin1313 2 года назад

If there is one thing I really appreciate about these videos, is the conversion from Imperial to Metric. It's such a simple thing, but because I watch a lot of content from the US not having the conversions can get confusing. So just that bit of extra effort is so appreciated! :)

@woodalexander 2 года назад

I find it rather annoying. Videos about the US should be in Freedom units, videos about the rest of the world in normal units. It drives me crazy to have conversions either way, as they aren't the units used in their areas.

@aespa690 2 года назад

I find it very annoying and distracting and makes it difficult to understand. When he says the numbers all so fast they blend together and mean nothing. What he should do is pick one of them and say that, then put a graphic on the screen with the other one so people can easily focus on one.

@marklittle8805 2 года назад

@@woodalexander Freedom units? Miles came from Imperial measurements and Roman ones. The Metric system won't kill you. I grew up on Miles and the old system but I can convert in a blink ...it isn't that hard.

@codycast 2 года назад

@@aespa690 exactly !

@woodalexander 2 года назад

@@marklittle8805 Metric won't kill be but in 'MURICA we use Freedom units. Everywhere else uses normal units. The units should be correct to the locality being talked about.

@icoder-ca7418 2 года назад

Fellow neighbour here from the North🇨🇦. For business and leisure, I've taken several road trips throughout Canada and the United States, and I can certainly proclaim that the interstate system is superior to our own Trans-Canada highway. On most interstates, I was permitted to go at 75 mph (125 km/h). Also amazed by the amount of information provided in this video, as well as the fact that the creator incorporated both miles and kilometres to convey speed. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's and the labourers' efforts worked splendidly, and they will continue to benefit the future generations as well.

@_colonial_ 2 года назад

Does the Canadian government just not invest as much into your network due to how concentrated your population is relative to the US? (I could be wrong, but IIRC like 40% of the Canadian population is in Ontario?)

@icoder-ca7418 2 года назад

@@_colonial_ Yes, because a network expansion is not currently required because 90 percent of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US border. The Trans-Canada Highway connects all major Canadian cities from east to west. The only investment they'll likely need to make in the near future due to population growth is to expand it from four lanes to six or eight lanes.

@prepperjonpnw6482 2 года назад

Your comment at 15:25 reminded me of what General Mills did about 20 years ago. They had a massive production facility right smack in the middle of California in a small town called Lodi (yes the one in the CCR song) that they were closing down due to out of control union demands. So they started searching for a new location along the I-5 corridor as well as going east along the I-10 corridor in the southwest states. They almost chose a place in Oregon called Grants Pass but county officials (all business owners) forced them to stay out and so General Mills went the other way on I-10. Either way they required access to the interstate system and rail lines.

@bluesnote1 2 года назад

You should do a video on how the Olympic torch relay actually works. The back ups, the incidents, and the accidents.

@metrofilmer8894 2 года назад

I honestly really want a video on The Logistics of the Olympic Torch Relay now

@lordulberthellblaze6509 2 года назад

The Internet Historian did a video on that Mostly covering the incidents and accidents part though. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YcuofODMCMU.html

@chasingtheclouds 2 года назад

That would make a really cool Wendover video!

@harryeyre1322 2 года назад

The absolute Chad that started it with a flaming arrow

@Redmenace96 Месяц назад

Brilliant idea!

@tofu-kun2914 2 года назад

You started a war between train lovers and car lovers Edit:Most likes I’ve gotten thanks guys

@rajashashankgutta4334 2 года назад

Why can't we have both trains and highways?

@tmrobertson 2 года назад

@@rajashashankgutta4334 yep. Trains from city to city, highways within the countryside and from country to city. The problem is the one-size-fits-all approach.

@hwong1776 2 года назад

@@rajashashankgutta4334 because they are inherently incompatible. Having trains means that when you reach a destination you should be able to get around your destination without the need of a car, meaning good public transit. Having highways means you should be able to get around your destination by driving. While a balance is possible, Having both as the main form of intercity travel for the masses is infeasible

@MrArslan0510 2 года назад

I love both

@rajashashankgutta4334 2 года назад

@@hwong1776 well you can use public bus service on highways(for those who can't drive for long time spans and to provide cheap public transport in relatively low traffic areas). Regarding intercity travel, public bus service can be used to connect relatively low traffic countryside with each other and with neighbouring towns and cities.

@scatsy 2 года назад

As an Australian, I’m jealous with the design. It’s Crazy how way back in the 50’s, the highways were designed as all dual carriageway (4 lanes). In Australia we obviously have heaps of really long highways but the only interstate/intercity highways that are dual carriageway the whole way is the Hume highway (Sydney to Melbourne) and the pacific highway (Sydney to Brisbane). And even then, the Hume only finished upgrading to 2 lanes each way the whole way in 2013. And the pacific highway was even later than that. So yeah pretty much all the regional highways here are single-lane except for those 2 and a few small ones that link places like Canberra, Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, Traralgon and Shepparton. And yet America did it in the 50’s.

@BearsThatCare Год назад

Just generally, one should not be jealous of anything that America did in the 50s. Unless your a oil baron or military officer, it did not turn out well for cities

@aldrinmilespartosa1578 Год назад

@@BearsThatCare beauty perhaps yes but in other areas its quite useful.

@wol_ves Год назад

One thing to keep in mind is that there needs to be the population to justify the infrastructure expense. The US population in the 1950s was ~150 million, whereas the current Australian population is ~25 million, and the size of Australia is similar to the size of the lower 48 states.

@ua2894 8 месяцев назад

A total of 13 people live in Australia. How much road do you need?

@Jaiyak 4 месяца назад

@@ua2894 Really The Hume and The Pacific are enough, they link the 3 largest cities anyway, its probably cheaper to fly now with the price of petrol

@brians7901 2 года назад

Never really appreciated how incredible the interstate system is until I became a trucker. I can't imagine not having it

@fgjr96way 2 месяца назад

it would be over weeks to get things shipped

@deividasverbickas6233 Месяц назад

@@fgjr96waybut faster via rail

@lavidawithjoey 2 года назад

Moving from the US to the Dominican Republic has really made me appreciate this. It feels like a luxury when I am on trips back to the US

@kingofkings1959 2 года назад

Im literally in DR rn, these highways are horrible. 40 miles here is 1+ hr, in the USA is 40 min

@erikdale9145 2 года назад

@@kingofkings1959 yeah but you're in the DR! Land of the best beaches, rum,cigar and princess enjoy!

@prod.kikirich 2 года назад

Why’d you move to the DR if you don’t mind me asking

@ElJosher 2 года назад

Why DR and not PR? sincere question.

@kingofkings1959 2 года назад

@@erikdale9145 of course. I’m dominican I know

@JordanRunge14 2 года назад

I'm really glad that you covered the negative impact that the interstate system had on cities. I would really love a video on the urban renewal that is coming about from the removal of freeways. One that I know of specifically is the one in Milwaukee which paved the way for the building of the new Bucks arena and surrounding entertainment district which has had a HUGE positive impact on the local economy and has made future development projects possible. It has honestly really brought the city together and it has made a nice gathering place that has a space for pedestrians that is separate from cars, which is one of the most important parts of the urban renewal movement

@shawnwalton2832 2 года назад

The people of San Francisco successfully shut down the construction of California SR 480 back in the 80s/90s, which turned an ugly overpass that encircled the city on its beautiful coastline into one of the best city roads in the country, complete with surface rail, bike lanes, and wide sidewalks. It helps that an earthquake destroyed it when it was almost done being built, too.

@warw 2 года назад

If you'd like to watch more that is critical of this, check out 'not just bikes' or eco gecko's playlist about suburbia

@JordanRunge14 2 года назад

@@warw I know "City Beutiful" has done topics close to this but never exactly this point. I'll have to check those out

@glegos2281 2 года назад

the interstate is spike driving through the heart of many major american cities. clogs them all up with cars. hopefully more cities will remove their highways in the future

@ShaiyanHossain 2 года назад

@@poetryflynn3712 there's towns built along the interstate route 66 travel was slow as faster roads were necessary regardless

@bienemaja4007 2 года назад

Thank you for providing the numbers not only in miles but also in kilometers. As a German I appreciate not having to look up/google every number. Thank you!!!

@ishaans.prasad8937 2 года назад

This is probably my fav Wendover Productions vid. I love driving/ road trips so it’s super cool to learn ab the background for interstates. Honestly, it’s something we take for granted here in the US-so many other countries simply don’t have such a robust road infrastructure.

@theholydm2040 2 года назад

The US actually has the worst road infrastructure in the entire developed world.

@theholydm2040 2 года назад

Highest traffic fatality rate by far as well

@heidirabenau511 Год назад

@@johnperic6860 Stroads are completely inefficient and the US has a very underdeveloped public transport infrastructure and people who are pedestrians or cyclists are at danger as there are hardly any pavements or bike lanes and most other countries have developed public transport or at least a decent one and it has been proven that the US has the most underdeveloped infrastructure of any developed nation on the planet

@Coyotek4 2 года назад

Regarding the numbering of interstate highways: (1) 'primary' roads are all single- or double-digits, with the most 'major' ones ending in 0 or 5 (like I-5, I-80, or I-95) (2) for these 'primary' roads, odd-numbered roads run north-south and even-numbered roads run east-west (3) also for 'primary' roads, values increase from west to east (odds) and from south to north (evens); thus, I-80 runs along the northern part of the US while I-95 runs along the east coast (4) three-digit interstate roads are offshoots of the 'primary' roads, with their last two digits signifying the 'primary' road; e.g.: I-295 and I-495 would both be offshoots of I-95 [these cannot repeat within a single state but can be reused by others, so one can have multiple I-295 roads in different parts of the country]

@keontre83 2 года назад

There's more Roads that end in 0 are coast to coast Roads that end in 5 are border to border Three digit roads with an even number first go around a city (285 in Atlanta) Three digit roads with an odd number first spur into and out of a city

@mad0131 2 года назад

In the UK we have 3ish numbered designations of roads: M - Motorway (Like a US interstate) i.e. M1, M6, M5 Primary A-roads (Green signs) - Usually old major routes and connections between urban centres where a motorway isn't practical i.e. A59, A30, A39 Secondary A-roads - Usually link smaller towns + narrower i.e. A3083 B-roads - Usually connect villages to larger towns and the main route through a certain area i.e B3293, B3303 The first number of the road signifies where in the country it is i.e 3 for the south-west, 6 for the north-west, 1 for east coast. The number of numbers in a road designation usually indicates the seniority, i.e the A30 is more of a major route than the A394 or the A674, whilst the A1 is senior to all those.

@theleftuprightatsoldierfield 2 года назад

@@keontre83 those last two points aren’t always true. 3 highways in Illinois disprove them. I-290 goes through Chicago, I-190 is just a spur to O’Hare airport, and I-355 doesn’t go into any major city and just serves as a connection between the northwest and southwest suburbs of Chicago

@keontre83 2 года назад

@@theleftuprightatsoldierfield there's exceptions to every rule. Chicago, sitting right on the shores of a great lake, would of course provide exceptions. 190 does a pretty good job going around Chicago considered it goes all the way out to Bloomington, but it ends in Chicago because where else would it end?

@tyrekewalker8309 2 года назад

To add to #4, if an offshoot begins in an even number, it circles a major city. If it begins in an off number, it connects two highways(not always 2 interstates)

@ben.taylor 2 года назад

If there's one place to remove the interstate highways it's the city centres

@jamesyoe9524 2 года назад

Yeah but it was too good an opportunity to destroy black communities for Robert Moses to pass up

@AxxLAfriku 2 года назад

Don't let this distract you from the fact that I get bullied because my classmates think my videos are the worst. Please don't agree, dear ben

@gvi341984 2 года назад

That wouldn't make sense; why build highways then? Where would they be built?

@ben.taylor 2 года назад

@@gvi341984 Around cities? Not right through them? City centres are destinations, not through-fares.

@wilyriley_ 2 года назад

@@gvi341984 around the edges of cities, with less major roads going into the centres of them

@silvershadow2373 2 года назад

This may sound weird but I am a HUGE fan of highways. Not because of this, but for a very long time I have been studying roadways like US, interstate, state routes, and even some county highways. When I watched this video, it was very interesting and everything is true. Thanks for making this video and I appreciate the love for highways.

@matrixpictures7799 2 года назад

i love them because its just a nice aesthetic lmao

@KrazyKittyTailz 2 года назад

Nice clip of I-90 into Mercer Island, WA from this Seattle resident. It's amazing how many of these nationwide Interstate shots that I've driven through over my 30 years of driving.

@sanketn 2 года назад

I personally love the interstate highway system and the way it connects cities. However, I also feel that has been a major roadblock for rail expansion in US which is comparatively better for the environment compared to car or an airplane. NYC-BOS is ~4 hours by car and ~1.5 hrs (+transfer from airport) by plane. Would be awesome to have a regular economically fared train that takes 2-3 hours or so.

@mattguey-lee4845 2 года назад

I can tell you have never driven on I-95 in the State of Connecticut. The average speed on that section seems like only 25MPH so it has taken me like 7 hours to make the trip between NYC and BOS. Also there is the Amtrak Acela and Regional trains that take about 4 hours.

@brockcast4659 2 года назад

Trains are great and work excellently for city to city transport (and I think we definitely should invest in them) but if you live in even a remotely rural area then trains and other forms of public transport become infeasible. The sheer amount of rail you would have to lay to connect the rural US in a manner that's even rivals state highways would be incredibly carbon intensive and I'd imagine that in the end it would probably be no more efficient than just using the interstate.

@ShoumikKundu 2 года назад

@@mattguey-lee4845 My family and I have made that trip for years and we have never taken 7 hours, the most it has taken us, and this is with a Tesla (charging stop included) was 4.5 hours. We usually take Ct-15 to bypass some parts of I-95

@sanketn 2 года назад

@@brockcast4659 Completely agree to that. There needs to be a balance. Dense communities can be connected via trains. Having a train serve a remote location is not optimal. However, many govt. who have invested in it still try to connect them as it gives an opportunity for it to grow. Similar to 4 lane road systems extended to small rural communities when they were built. On paper it may not look optimal to build it for few hundred people. However, the expectation is for it to be the impetus for growth

@sanketn 2 года назад

@@mattguey-lee4845 I am actually from tri state area and I have used I-95 numerous times. I understand the traffic issue it has because of the busy corridor (try ct-15 it is relatively light on traffic and no trucks). The problem with Amtrak Acela is it is expensive (I have personally never traveled in it, so can not rate the experience) and regional trains are 4 hours from what I heard on paper. It does take a little longer than that. Also, another problem is greater boston area is not as well connected with rail transit as the greater new york area is. So, you end up needing a bus or a long cab ride from the south station.

@CJusticeHappen21 2 года назад

As a Canadian, I had no idea what roads could be until I drove from Michigan to North Dakota. Seriously, infrastructure is such a gamechanger, and we take it for granted so much.

@matrixpictures7799 2 года назад

literally

@niubi42069 9 месяцев назад

yeah, Canada could be awesome if we had more than 1 highway.

@penguin3540 9 месяцев назад

@@niubi42069the thing is, traffic is horrible near cities. It’s not so much the Infrastructure, just that there’s no people. If Canada and the US built good train systems, then the highways and trains would be used equally and traffic would be better.

@Botoburst 7 месяцев назад

@@niubi42069 Not much motivation when Canadians can just cross over and use I-90 and I-94.

@gencreeper6476 4 месяца назад

The closest thing is BC's coquihalla which was modeled on Autobahn, Interstate and turnpike design standards but its a single special piece of road. Coquihalla design standards follow the autobahn's strict "no left exits period" policy though.

@D_veraz 2 года назад

Amazing video! explains accurately the history of the interstate highways in the US.

@RyneLanders 2 года назад

I live in Colorado and I have to say, it has some of the absolute best driving in the US. Glenwood Canyon is a great example of that, as is Independence Pass near Aspen, not to mention all of the other roads through and around the mountains. I've also driven Route 66, nearly the full length of the PCH from San Diego to Washington, and numerous routes overseas for comparison, including SEA and the coast highway in Cape Town's peninsula.

@BritishMetric144 2 года назад

The PCH does not go from San Diego to Washington. It goes from Dana Point to Leggett (approximately 1,050 km).

@RyneLanders 2 года назад

@@BritishMetric144 Highway 101, also known as the Pacific Coast Highway and the Oregon Coast Highway, and several other names, stretches from the border of Canada down to LA where it becomes Highway 1 / the Coast Highway, and becomes 5 in San Diego. I've driven from Astoria, Oregon (border of Washington) south to the border of California, and in 2019 I did Tijuana, MX to Monterey, CA up that same highway I just listed. Please do some research.

@Ryan-ow2bq 9 месяцев назад

If you're talking Colorado mountain roads, you're right to include the Glenwood Canyon and Vail Pass sections of I-70. Also worth mentioning: Hwy 285 (everything west of Denver but especially Windy Point and Kenosha Pass), US 40/Berthoud and Rabbit Ears Passes, US 6/Breckenridge. Surely there are plenty of amazing drives I'm missing here, but these are my most memorable highlights as a 35+yr Coloradan and former Pine Jct resident/daily survivor of 285!

@specialopsdave 8 месяцев назад

I work in Avon, and when the interstate and us6 were closed last week, I went through Independence Pass AND the canyon, it was awesome

@NikRiddick 2 года назад

“Some lieutenant colonel” had me thinking, “wow, the disrespect.” Pretty good reveal there pal. We should have seen it coming.

@jalene150 2 года назад

Ngl the highway system really separates the areas around Chicago. It feels like completely different states/areas just going to a different neighborhood.

@georgelabe-assimo4365 2 года назад

That’s the inherent downside of the American highway system. Effective residential segregation between neighborhoods.

@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 2 года назад

Keeps me safe lol.

@kaiseramadeus233 2 года назад

@@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 and keeps me in a more dangerous area lol

@rubenlopez3364 2 года назад

Even where i live in Arizona, the Suburbs are behind the 1-10 and some fields and right across all that is the Ghetto main urban area, which looks a bit like Los Angeles, just in the Desert.

@tolpacourt 2 года назад

Chicago is a corrupt shit hole.

@jordaneimer2873 2 года назад

one of the most insane human achievements of all time is our road system. from my doorstep there is a continous mesh of concrete and asphalt leading to any and every destination on this contentent and even others. its almost difficult to fathom the scale of the US highway and street systems.

@JiiHate 2 года назад

And one of the worst human achievements is how automobile dependent the US is.

@wh0_am_152 2 года назад

@@JiiHate That's debatable

@wh0_am_152 2 года назад

@@sweetembrace6706 meh my pfp was a random stock photo I needed to use to differentiate myself when using Google services years ago for discussions on projects.... That I have been to lazy to change. But I have found on the topic of whether cars are for good or for ill that opinions vary based on people's views of freedom and where the live. If you live in a city and have no desire to explore and go wherever you please without anyone to tell you otherwise. Sure I can see your poor view of roads and cars since all you see is the detriments. If you live in the rural country where your nearest neigbor is an hour walk and your nearest Red Bull a 20 minute drive, or you just don't like people telling you can and can't go. The road network is an extremely flexible and effective way to move goods and people esp. in the case of a crisis, without the fear of reprisal. Truely the road system is one of the best possible systems for a country with as much rural land as the US the strength of that system is the foundation of the econoic strength of the US.

@user-cx9nc4pj8w Год назад

@@wh0_am_152 If I were to live in a city, like 80% of the american population, I'd like to be able to get around without relying on the least efficient and most environmentally destructive option for my day to day needs. Sure, roads are an invaluable investment for rural areas, but once again, most people do not live in rural areas. So instead of trying to pretend cities are rural areas and ensuring cars are the only form of transportation, you could utilise the benefits of cities to make infrastructure suited to them, that people, not metal boxes, can actually live in. But no, we want the freedom to be forced to by a several thousand dollar car, which only really gives you the freedom to go where the government has decided to build roads.

@wh0_am_152 Год назад

@@user-cx9nc4pj8w Which is literally everywhere. Car ownership allows a society to be flexible and more able to respond to disasters, economic turmoil, and conflict, while also avoiding being under the government's thumb, making it harder for a tyrannical government to operate. Also just letting you know cities according to the 2020 census only harbor 30% of the US pop. Also if you are concerned about dirty we should stop exporting manufacturing to lower wealth countries such as China whom don't enforce many of the environmental regulations like we do and have been expanding coal capacity.

@emmanuellemiranda5910 Год назад

I loved it!! Thx!!

@burnttoast26 2 года назад

It's especially impressive when you consider that the US is almost the size of Europe, *without* Alaska and Hawaii.

@andreipopescul2439 2 года назад

lmao where did you get that from? Europe is larger than the us

@burnttoast26 2 года назад

@@andreipopescul2439 Continental US: 3.797 square miles Europe: 3.931 square miles This is estimated so sources vary; my initial measure was inaccurate but *total* US with all 50 is larger than Europe.

@TheSpecialJ11 2 года назад

@@burnttoast26 I think that's only the European Union, which is the majority but not the totality of the continent.

@burnttoast26 2 года назад

@@TheSpecialJ11 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe That's all of Europe including Turkey.

@guacre2675 2 года назад

@@burnttoast26 Um... 3.797 square miles? I kind of doubt America is that small

@topiasr628 2 года назад

I appreciate the history of the first ever Cannonball run

@evboto.5597 2 года назад

I hate the Cannonball Run. It encourages reckless behavior on America’s roads which lead to lots of suffering, injuries, and death.

@demosteneneacsiu6144 2 года назад

@@evboto.5597 We do not care

@fockayouwhale 2 года назад

@@evboto.5597 lol

@Snipeyou1 2 года назад

@@evboto.5597 get off the road then

@jackinblack19 2 года назад

@@evboto.5597 cry

@nswanberg Год назад

The Davison Freeway, which runs east-west between M-10 and Interstate 75, was arguably the first urban freeway constructed in the United States. It was named after Jared Davison, an English immigrant and early settler whose farm bordered what became Davison Avenue. In 1914 the area was incorporated into a 2.9 square mile city called Highland Park, which exists within the boundaries of the City of Detroit.

@striffleric 2 года назад

Incredible video!

@tudorjason 2 года назад

Fun fact: The guy who decided on green for interstate signs was colorblind and thought he was selecting blue. But it turned out to be a good thing since green is more reflected than blue.

@leefinthewind2311 2 года назад

That's the definition of a fun fact, thank you haha

@TheChainChasers 2 года назад

Dopeeee

@royce9018 2 года назад

Also seems to be entirely made up… But the story that a colorblind guy is deciding colors for a whole country is amusing as a joke at least.

@SavantAudiosurf 2 года назад

That is not only false but quite the opposite. William Potts, the invetor of the 3 color traffic light, chose these 3 colors because they are easier for color blind people to see the different hues.

@mjc0961 2 года назад

@@leefinthewind2311 Right? So rare to see a fun fact that's actually fun.

@yungtoolshed251 2 года назад

I like the interstate system but we still need a metro and highspeed rail system that connects major urban centers.

@schwenda3727 2 года назад

AND to get as many of the dumbest, baddest drivers off of the roads as possible. You ever drive down a busy freeway right before rush hour congestion officially starts backing up? Just a small handful of bad drivers with literally thousands of other drivers per hour is all it takes!

@Androfier 2 года назад

@@schwenda3727 And that is why I say unless you're an oil baron or a greasy car salesman then you should support increased investment in public transportation.

@yungtoolshed251 2 года назад

@@Androfier my grandfather who was in the military during the McCarthy era used to call my brother and I commies for wanting rail transit. Red baiting has never really died unfortunately

@boomerb7073 2 года назад

See the problem is .. the us is massive. A metro is just unfeisable. A rail less so but we'd need so much track I'd be impractical.

@Fater4511 2 года назад

@@Androfier it is less effective in the rural areas because no one will use it. rural people want to go on their own time. they want to stop when they want and go when they want without being dependent on others.

@antoniot7928 7 месяцев назад

Now we need a major high speed rail project!

@Andy-pr5be Год назад

Thank you for this amazing gift

@thenotflatearth2714 2 года назад

Evergreen truck: travels on interstate 5 Oregon: sweats profusely

@aryaaswale7316 2 года назад

Underrated as fuck

@matthew8153 2 года назад

Don’t worry, it’s driven by a man.

@gregessex1851 2 года назад

The “Interstate” part of the system was obviously important for the country. Putting it through the middle of cities was madness and has made US Cities the most unliveable in the OECD.

@9HighFlyer9 2 года назад

Really though would they have stayed not in the middle of cities? Where there's transportation infrastructure we've managed to build cities and towns on both sides.

@gregessex1851 2 года назад

@@9HighFlyer9 Nearly all other countries have built motorways around their cities. The US is usually cited as a reason to keep them out of cities.

@9HighFlyer9 2 года назад

@@gregessex1851 I'd say that it's probably not a great idea to plow through neighborhoods and lay down miles of concrete physically separating areas of the city. What's stopping development along a freeway that was built outside of the city? It happened with the rivers, the canals, railroads and highways. At that point you still end up with a freeway through the city.

@westrim 2 года назад

@@9HighFlyer9 But then it happens semiorganically. People know it's there and can plan accordingly.

@westrim 2 года назад

@IWT A failure to plan doesn't negate the opportunity.

@vwspeedracer 2 года назад

Per Wikipedia's Cannonball Run entry: As of October 2021, the overall record (NYC to LA) is 25 hours 39 minutes, with an average speed of 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), driven by Arne Toman and Doug Tabbutt along with spotter Dunadel Daryoush.

@syedaliehsan Год назад

Great background music. Beautiful

@lifebloodcore2106 2 года назад

The interstates are great but I would still love a similarly large passenger rail network, preferably high-speed where possible, in addition. Trains are safer and less polluting than cars and easier to travel on than planes. It's like a happy medium.

@comentaristax9804 2 года назад

agree, but important to remember that the biggest benefit from the intestates doesn´t come from domestic travellers but from cargo. Still would be nice to see (at least two different disconnected networks for the mainland since nothing will change that the us is a huge continental nation)

@Matt-wc2mf 2 года назад

Europe's model did both, but without running the motorways through the center of cities. Wish the US had followed this a little closer.

@anthonydpearson 2 года назад

True, but you also have to remember that the US is twice the size of Europe wjth half the population, so the lack of density makes it harder. In reality people will only take a train for trips of max 5 hours, otherwise planes are faster. Even if we had the highest speed train that exists, it would still take about 16 hours to go from coast to coast - flying is just faster. Where HSR DOES makes sense is corridors - northeast, Houston-Dallas, South Florida, etc

@comentaristax9804 2 года назад

@@Matt-wc2mf not too late

@comentaristax9804 2 года назад

@@anthonydpearson yepp, the best would be 2 separate systems for high speed. Since poor people would use bus or car and middle and upper classes would still use car or plane then the la-ny trip is for the very few enthusiast, for whom a regular low speed or even a steam powered train is enough to make most of us happy

@strife1012 2 года назад

I happened to pickup a National Geographic Map of the US dated September 1956 at a national park last year they were clearing out. Verified this map shows none of the Interstate, but it shows initial construction of Topeka to Kansas City and some of the other initial plans in Kansas & Florida.

@SCIFIguy64 2 года назад

See i was always told it was KC to STL first, not Wichita to KC. I guess I was told wrong back then.

@bthemedia 2 года назад

6:20 Missed that Gen Eisenhower “stole/copied” the invention of the Interstate highway system from the leader of Germany in WWII (he who shall not be named lest censored) 🤬

@funnygrunt_o7 2 года назад

WOW this puts so much into perspective for me. Especially living in the middle of nowhere Kansas where we now RELY on the interstate 🤯🤯 what was my small town like just a short time ago in the 50s? wow

@AYVYN 5 месяцев назад

Eisenhower did this and still kept the budget balanced. Logistics genius.

@totalwarfan1945 2 года назад

I got another quirk of the Interstate Highway System for you. There’s a stretch of I-93 through Franconia Notch in New Hampshire that is the only two-lane freeway section of the entire IHS. It’s only one lane north and one lane south, and the speed limit drops to 45 mph. It is in conjunction with NH Route 3, and was granted the exception by an act of Congress to preserve Franconia Notch State Park, its trailheads, campgrounds, and scenic areas.

@bpugsy719 2 года назад

are you sure? thats interesting, but there are definitely stretches of I-25 in Colorado/New Mexico that are one lane north one lane south

@johnathin0061892 2 года назад

There are a number of exceptions on the Interstate system. There is a traffic light on one in Syracuse NY during the fair season. A few rural ones in Texas have intersections so farmers can cross and access them.

@totalwarfan1945 2 года назад

@@bpugsy719 There may be others, but I think the distinction the is that this stretch of I-93 is the only “compliant” stretch because Congress approved it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gaps_in_Interstate_Highways I-93 is a two-lane divided parkway, or a "super two", through Franconia Notch in New Hampshire. A four-lane Interstate Highway was once proposed here, but the concept was abandoned because of environmental concerns, in part because of vibrations that could harm the Old Man of the Mountain rock formation (which collapsed in 2003 regardless). This section of highway was for many years marked as US 3 and "To I-93", but these have now been replaced with regular I-93 signs. The Federal Highway Act of 1973 exempts this 7.6-mile (12.2 km) stretch from the Interstate Highway standards that apply elsewhere, and this highway is considered to be I-93 for all practical purposes.[13] This section of I-93 in New Hampshire is now the only remaining multi-mile section of two-lane freeway on an Interstate Highway in the United States. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_two

@totalwarfan1945 2 года назад

@@johnathin0061892 The finer point may be a compliance thing. This stretch was approved by Congress, and therefore may be the only “compliant” exception to the interstate system.

@sumeriancoppermerchant650 2 года назад

The INSANE logistics of the interstate highway system

@rgerber 2 года назад

The complex simplicity of the insanely genious interstate system

@SWLinPHX Год назад

I remember when I-10 didn't pass thru the metro Phoenix area. It took a long time to travel from our western suburb of Litchfield Park in the 1970s to the inner city. Then 1-10 finally connected us (one new mile/exit each month) to the rest of the valley so that Santa Monica, CA ws not completely connected to Jacksonville, FL. They resisted it in the 1970s here but a few things changed that suddenly reamped things up in the 1980s when I was in high school.

@yanniklohlein5998 2 года назад

Love that there was some footage of a German highway included, the kne where it panned from the parking bay over the road

@ordinaryorca9334 2 года назад

About the deaths per mile comparisson, did that statistic include pedestrian deaths, as they and cyclists are the main victims of car related deaths due to poor infrastructure for everyone not in a metal box... and that could explain this difference as only cars are allowed on highways

@EliStettner 2 года назад

No man,

@thatoneotherotherguy 2 года назад

I think the biggest reasons interstates are so relatively safe is the controlled access and divided nature between oncoming traffic. If someone oncoming falls asleep at the wheel on an interstate, I have a much better shot of avoiding them than if they do the same on a smaller, two lane state road at 70mph.

@liamtahaney713 2 года назад

It's also an incredibly silly idea to suggest that the inner States don't contribute to that's on those personal roads because if the complete dependence on other transportation that the inner States provided America didn't happen then driving on those profile Road to be substantively less crowded and therefore safer

@prplt 2 года назад

well on some interstates bikes are allowed as well (when there's no good alternative route, for example I-90 crossing the Columbia river)

@ordinaryorca9334 2 года назад

@@prplt without cycle lanes?!! I am already uncomfortable on a road with a speed limit of 70 km/h on a painted cycle lane...

@murdelabop 2 года назад

Ike campaigned for decades to build a national system of highways. The response from conservatives was always the same: "There is no business case for it." His proposed "System of Interstate Highways" was a nonstarter. Then he added two words to the title, and beat conservatives at their own game. Thus it became "The System of Interstate and Defense Highways". Ike was smart.

@murdelabop 2 года назад

@Account NumberEight : Of course. That's where the money is, and has been for much of the past century.

@murdelabop 2 года назад

@Account NumberEight : Some of it, certainly. The thing is that there is lots of money to be made providing products and services to governments at all levels honestly. One of the best ways to get into the top 0.1% income bracket is to provide a product or service to the federal government. Especially to the military-industrial complex.

@MrTrevortxeartxe 2 года назад

And conservatives are STILL like that today...those mindless idiots want to keep our wages low because they think that having six hundred billionares controlling all the money is good for the economy.

@Dutch_Uncle 2 года назад

@Account NumberEight Yes, that is where the bucks are, for the military. just reality, not criticism.

@CommanderCodey 2 года назад

Proof that conservatives always set everything and everyone back. I don’t know why anyone likes conservatives. It was conservatives that supported slavery conservatives that wanted to succeed from the US and everything else. Even though the Conservative party used to be the democrats it flip flopped and now the Democratic Party is progressive.

@MrShaunG 2 года назад

Great work

@CalebNorthNorman 2 года назад

Awesome video Dude

@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx 2 года назад

This is twice as interesting

@Student0Toucher 2 года назад

Nice afro

@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx 2 года назад

@@Student0Toucher thank you 😊

@22yhjjjj 2 года назад

I was on I95 last week going from the bottom of Florida to the top of Virginia. The drive was about 16 hours. Hearing it takes a coast to coast trip took 2 months before Interstates existed sounds terrifying.

@andrewbloom7694 2 года назад

Everyone in Colorado has been through the Glenwood section of I-70 at least once , and I'm not the only one who still is awed every time I do.

@Ankux_08 2 года назад

Im a trucker and i like Interstate system its just awesome 🤩

@fgjr96way 2 месяца назад

Good way to enjoy America landscape ,hills, mountains and valleys rolling from Cities and Cities, taking it easy.

@MrAsH412 2 года назад

It's crazy how i was suddenly interested in learning about the interstate's history a week ago and been watching older videos and now one of my favourite channels drops a fresh video. Thank you so much for this!

@Dujma89 2 года назад

Here to appreciate Wendover putting both imperial and metric system in his explanations in the video. Good job, keep it up.

@youtuuba 7 месяцев назад

Missing from this and some other RU-vid videos on the US Interstate System is the very real and important military considerations. President Eisenhower had seen the German Autobahns instigated by Hitler, and how those were not just for personal use and commerce, but critically also to facilitate rapid massive military repositionings and as alternate runways for military aircraft. Eisenhower made sure that the US Interstate System also incorporated those military considerations; these manifest themselves as a significant portion of straight sections with an absence of signage, lamp posts, bridges, wooded areas, buildings, etc.

@utterbullspit 2 года назад

Eisenhower had a plan and a vision, and implemented it. He's massively responsible for the success that America has seen to this day.

@stevenirby5576 2 года назад

Man, that 1919 trip across the country sounded like an epic adventure. I've gone coast to coast myself, from West to East and back West. I spent an entire month zig-zagging across North America. I can't imagine doing that back then. Sounds amazing.

@user-de4cq6uk6l 2 года назад

They should’ve built a parallel high speed rail network in high traffic corridors (SF-LA, NY-Chicago) to relieve congestion and better spread out the load

@patricke825 2 года назад

NY to Chicago is far though, Detroit-Chicago and Boston-Dc would be more feasible

@thefareplayer2254 2 года назад

@@patricke825 NYC to Chicago has Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, Fort Wayne, And South Bend between them. That’s plenty of ridership potential.

@skypesos 2 года назад

@@thefareplayer2254 Why would anyone go via Upstate NY between NYC and Cleveland? It’s so out of the way.

@nelsonricardo3729 2 года назад

@@thefareplayer2254 "Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, Fort Wayne, And South Bend" Hmmmm. We'll have to change the name from fly-over states to rail-through states.

@CaseNumber00 2 года назад

California voters back in 2008 voted to create a high speed rail to connect SF to LA but Republican counties said it would cost too much ...even though CA voters voted for it to happen. To continue their argument, they organized and decided to sue at every chance they get when construction begins in a red county. This costs money from stalling the project and court/lawyer fees thereby inflating the initial costs of when the project was purposed. They then, and even now, keep pointing to the high costs of the project as proof as a waste of money and blah blah bad Dem leadership...which the Reps created themselves. I voted for this when I was 18 in 2008 hoping by now I would enjoying rides to N. California.

@hobog 2 года назад

I compare this nationwide standardisation effort with metros in the PRC, and I wish the USA could do it again with public transit in providing national standard designs and incentivising standard appropriate rolling stock (light rail is currently overtasked, too small to handle urban+suburban passenger load)

@drh3b 2 года назад

I'm old enough that Interstate 5 didn't exist when I was a child. To go to Portland, where we had family, from Orange County involved going up the PCH, which involved winding around mountains, to whatever Oregon had. Getting into Portland involved hours of switchbacks stuck behind semi trucks. I-5 shaved hours off the trip, I don't recall how much.

@knoahbody69 2 года назад

Where I lived, there was a 50 mile gap from the next town. It took them years to build it. It literally stopped at the edge of town.

@1.4142 2 года назад

16:17 Does reduced densities increase the environmental impact of cities? Would like to hear more about the flaws of the highway system and comparisons to public transportation.

@harzer99 2 года назад

yes longer travel times and larger buildings generally have more volume/surface area and therefore less heating/ cooling requirements per inhabitant.

@akimo4567 2 года назад

@@harzer99 that, plus a bigger developed ground area disturbs nature. (esp rain drainage for example, which heats up the cities and causes ppl to need their ac etc.) Another things is the many journeys could do do on foot in high density (shopping, appointment, work, etc.), but have to do in a car in the suburbs because of the longer distances and car-centric city planning (no sidewalks, huge parking lots, few pedestrian crossings)

@jfolz 2 года назад

Check out the Not Just Bikes channel. TL;DW suburban sprawl is a ponzy scheme bankrolled by the federal government that bankrupts cities to create empty hell scapes that strictly require a car to get to the other side of the road.

@treker2379 2 года назад

@@jfolz NJB based that on Strong Towns, which is also worth a look

@ArawnOfAnnwn 2 года назад

Besides higher environmental impact, less density also makes them less financially viable - cos of more area for the city to maintain, while it has fewer people to collect taxes from. Many of America's cities actually run on debt and/or endless federally financed expansion as a result of this.

@lucianoradice5257 2 года назад

The car dependent suburban "hellscape" some cities turned into was a big mistake in the system design

@Arybus 2 года назад

This

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

Not a mistake, it was done on purpose. Still a stupid disicion though lol.

@pjk9225 2 года назад

been watching tons of videos by "not just bikes" and "city beautiful" Its absolutely insane how messed up our city and town road systems are on a fundamental level and most people have NO IDEA

@nehankaranch2149 2 года назад

Its because cities grow over time and this wasnt designed for modern day

@Marvin-ii7bh 2 года назад

@@nehankaranch2149 well in europe cities also grow

@LMays-cu2hp 2 года назад

Thank your for sharing.

@jackbarbey 2 года назад

Interesting to hear about the Glenwood Canyon section of I70, as this portion was closed for a couple weeks right as this video was released due to landslides