![]() ![]() 40/the Mark Twain Expressway (future I-70), bringing the total Interstate contracting to over $5 million, the commission documented the historic moment in photographs. O'Brien's call to headquarters confirmed what everybody in the room believed: The project on what would become part of I-44 was the first contract awarded under the new program to build the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.Īfter awarding two projects on U.S. ![]() As District Engineer for the BPR's Missouri office, O'Brien had watched as the Missouri State Highway Commission awarded a $1.1 million contract to Koss Construction Company of Des Moines, Iowa, shortly after 10 am to lay 13.3 miles of 24-foot concrete pavement on U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) in Washington. O'Brien picked up the telephone and called the headquarters of the U.S. Eisenhower had signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 just 1 month earlier on June 29. The Greatest Public Works Project in History produced the greatest decade in the history of highways. Celebrating the 50 TH Anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate System ![]()
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