Article: The Interstate Years: 1960s.

By Steve Hudson

Our review at the history of the Interstate System in the southeast - a system which, five decades ago, Dixie Contractor described as a "highway without a traffic light" - continues with a look at some of the interstate construction going on in Dixie in the 1960s.

As the southeast moved into the 1960s, Interstate construction was beginning to thrive. The pages of Dixie Contractor regularly carried articles describing some of the work that was going on, and as you look at those long-ago articles you can't help but be struck by the similarities between the challenges then and the challenges facing highway contractors today.

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