Before GIS

Interstate traffic study, 1944

Eric Fischer found this relief map depicting the predicted traffic volumes of the “National System of Interregional Highways”, later known as the Interstate system. Another way of looking at this might have been, where should we build new train lines in addition to the Interstates? Sadly, that wasn’t the case.

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