Origins and Construction of the Interstate System by W. Lee Mertz

• W. Lee Mertz Biography
• Origins of the Interstate explores the critical years in the conceptualization of the Interstate System culminating in the 1956 Highway Act
• Building the Interstate issues that affected the early years of construction
• The Bragdon Committee an interesting footnote to the Eisenhower years
• Memories of 499 Recollections from Mertz's work at the Regional Highway Planning Committee on 499 Pennsylvania Avenue