The Eisenhower Interstate System

I've had one of my best trips in my life at the peak of the Corona-Virus pandemic: A road trip in Texas, in 2021. This state is the second biggest in the country. It would take a long time to travel it completely. Mine covered a big portion. It was on my way back that I saw a sign saying that I was on a part of the Eisenhower Interstate System. I remembered that I had heard about it in an episode of The Big Bang Theory and did some research about it. 

I-17 sign in Arizona. I took this picture when I was heading north nearly 10 years ago! 

President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Interstate Act in 1956 to become a law as a means to facilitate major urban area evacuation at the time of a possible war. I noticed an interstate highway first in my Arizona road trip in 2015. The interstate highways were considered crucial in that time when the Cold War was in full swing. The highways also intend to act as runway for fighter jets and bombers.  

FA-18 Jets of the Swiss Air Force have landed on a highway in the country as part of a practice in 2024. It's a surprise to me that Canada has the plan to change their FA-18 fighter jets and has been calling them aging. This has been in the news since Peter MacKay was the Defense Minister! I'll have a post for that later.

The Swiss Air Force started landing its jets on the country's highways as a practice. It's hard to believe that a country, as small as Switzerland, is as big as a small state such as Vermont has such an advanced highway system but it's Switzerland and it has! It will be my first European trip after my last which was in 2014! They claim the threat of Russia is the reason they're worried! It seems the whole Europe is felt threatened but that's beyond this post.

(Photo, top: The Eisenhower Interstate System sign on I-10 when I was going east)