Interstate Highway System

American  

[in-ter-steyt hahy-wey sis-tuhm] / ˈɪn tərˌsteɪt ˈhaɪˌweɪ ˌsɪs təm /

noun

1. Official Name Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.  a network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 conterminous states, begun in the 1950s and estimated to carry about 25 percent of the nation's traffic: also established in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, but without physical connections to other states or territories.

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Example Sentences

That is the most ambitious capital deployment since the interstate highway system, chasing AI-services revenue that remains a fraction of the capital deployed.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s bigger than the railroad expansion of the 1850s, the Apollo space program that put astronauts on the moon in the 1960s and the decadeslong build-out of the U.S. interstate highway system that ended in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal

Within a year, President Eisenhower had signed the bill that would create the Interstate Highway System as we know it today.

From Los Angeles Times

The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law established the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program known as NEVI, setting aside $5 billion to build new EV chargers along America’s sprawling interstate highway system toward Mr. Biden’s goal of installing 500,000 public charging ports by 2030.

From Washington Times

“The biggest investment of rebuilding America's infrastructure since President Eisenhower's rebuilding of the roads and highways and bridges and with the interstate highway system. And we've done the same now delivering clean water, high-speed Internet to every American, and cheaply,” Biden explained.

From Salon