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On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the advance of the Texas Highway Department. An agency initially created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects each and every corner of the state.
When the Texas Highway Department (now known as the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) used to be created in 1917, there have been simplest about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Nowadays, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles.
Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together another time in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years within the making.
When the Texas Highway Department (now known as the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) used to be created in 1917, there have been simplest about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Nowadays, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles.
Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together another time in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years within the making.
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