My husband got this book from our library and enjoyed it so much I purchased it for our 36 year-old son for his birthday, and he also really enjoyed it. If you remember car travel before the interstates and the Eisenhower years, you'll like this one. Has an interesting section on old bridges, too.

This is by far the finest book written on the Interstate System in it's fifty- year existance! I just can't put it down. It's written in a way that you can choose - the earlier pre-interstate era, or just the tunnel chapter, or whatever! There are several very intresting "sidebars" on related subjects like a parcel company that thrived because of the Interstate, and how the sign design process evolved. Author Dan McNichol is a respected authority on transportation journalism, and this has to be his greatest career milepost!

In as much as the Interstate has had an impact on American society, this fine book provides miles of intresting reading!

This is a very attractive book, and lots of fun to read. In fact, this book is very elegant, and utterly fascinating to pick up. Speaking of that, you will find it hard to put down. Between the photographs and the various histories and stories, you will find this easy to either read straight through, or skip around. Every topic will be more interesting than the previous one (whichever one you just finished reading).

Yes, writing a book on this topic could be done with any, some, or all of the topics which cross the mind. But what topics, and what pictures! This book could be put by the bedside for reading, or plopped onto the coffee table for showing. OK, you would read it also!

A weakness with "Roads"? Well, the book was printed on more expensive media than usual for a book, and it is harder to read lying down. It is also harder to read with one hand, leaving the other free for a cup of coffee, or a carafe of your finest wine. In other words, not much ugly to say about this one!

Anyone interested in transportation would love all of the history presented in this book. It begins by talking about roads that were dirt paths and progresses all the way to the 'Big Dig' project in Boston. Great stories, great writing, great pics!

Recommended!!

I found this book to be a comprehensive accounting of the developement of our highway system beginning with our very first national road and going thru to Boston's big dig. The book doesn't get bogged down with details, and has lots of good pictures. If you want a lot of information in a hurry, you'll enjoy this book.

I've read several books on this subject, and this one is like the others in one regard: I'd enjoy reading more about the actual construction details- the unforseen problems, the mishaps and mistakes, the million other events that occur between groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting. Nonetheless, a good book, I enjoyed it.

Clearly this topic will not be of interest to everybody but for those with an interest in history and the often surprising reasons behind the highway system in the U.S., this book is a joy. You will astound your friends with trivia! How many of them know that Maryland contains the most-expensive (per toll mile) interstate in the Country? (How many of your friends might care, is another story).

Altough it seems to be written in high-school textbook prose, the chapters are well organzined, the photos are wonderful and the format lends itself to the coffee table. It can be read in almost any order, a chapter at at time or even a sidebar at a time.

I now have an appreciation for the engineering marvel that Americans take for granted every day.

A high quality printing, on quality paper,with lots of interesting pictures,and a fairly complete general history of the interstates from their conception and idea on into the near future of these roads,more or less a coffeetable book in some ways but a very affordable price.Quite a bit of information within it's 200 some pages.