America’s Dream Highway
Posted by Dan Cupper on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on America’s Dream Highway Almost no one could have foreseen, fifty years ago, that an experiment in transportation engineering meandering across the rugged southern Alleghenies could profoundly affect the way tens of millions of Americans travel. But from the very day it opened on October 1, 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike did just that – despite the fact that its first section ran from nowhere to nowhere. The...read more