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Article: America's State Transportation Departments Lead Commemoration of Interstate Highway System's 50th Anniversary.
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- January 13, 2006
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DETROIT, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders of the group representing America's state departments of transportation joined members of Congress, Michigan officials and the chairman of a transportation technology group at a news conference announcing a year of activities celebrating the 50th anniversary -- and the future -- of the U.S. Interstate Highway System.
"The bill creating the Interstate Highway System was one of the earliest votes I participated in as a member of Congress," said Michigan Congressman John Dingell, who recently celebrated his own 50th anniversary as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. "We knew that it represented progress, but it ...