What caused the death of Route 66?
Giovanni van den Broek
2025-05-14 13:40:47
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In de jaren vijftig boden nieuwe snelwegen snellere reismogelijkheden met weinig aansluitingen naar Route 66. Toen de belangrijkste snelwegen alle verkeer begonnen aan te trekken, verloor Mother Road het grootste deel van haar bedrijf.
Toen ze deApache Skate Crew ontmoetten in Arizona werd nog een reden voor het dalen van het aantal bezoekers van Route 66 duidelijk. In de ghost town Twin Arrows werden de skateboarders gewezen op een aantal landmarks in de omgeving. Volgens Douglas Miles, een van de leden van de Apache Skate Crew zijn deze plekkenαναchteruit Flexd door de jaren heen gegaan: “Er is een heleboel kitscherige, stereotiepe, vreemde, halfracistische structuren hier nu. Dat is waarom deze plekken ook een beetje uiteenvallen, omdat ik denk dat mensen in de loop der jaren beseften dat deze plek rot is.”
Met toegang tot handigere snelwegen vandaag de dag, reizen niet veel mensen nog via de Main Street of America.
Féline Luster
2025-05-08 18:18:45
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Ultimately, the push for improved roads and more efficient ways of traversing the country that initially benefited Route 66 eventually led to its decline.
When President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956—creating a national system of interstate highways—Route 66 was “booming,”
The goal was traveling long distances in the shortest amount of time possible, without much consideration given to who or what the highway was bypassing or cutting through.
Stretching west from Oklahoma City through the Texas panhandle, New Mexico, northern Arizona and ending in Barstow, California, Interstate 40 replaced much of Route 66 by 1960.
By 1970, Interstate 55 provided a faster way to get from Chicago to St. Louis, while Interstate 44 got drivers from St. Louis to Oklahoma City, according to the Federal Highway Administration.
The final stretch of the original Route 66—located in Williams, Arizona—was bypassed in October 1984.
The following year, Route 66 was officially decommissioned.
Yasmin van der Meer
2025-04-28 21:20:20
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Ironically, the public lobby for rapid mobility and improved highways that gained Route 66 its enormous popularity in earlier decades also signaled its demise beginning in the mid-1950s. Mass support for an interstate system of divided highways markedly increased during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term in the White House. Congress responded to the president's commitment by passing the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, which provided a comprehensive financial umbrella to underwrite the cost of the national interstate and defense highway system. In accord with the legislation, Interstate 40 west from Oklahoma City through the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico, northern Arizona, and finally ending in Barstow, California would replace the major segment of U.S. 66. By 1970, two equally modern four-lane highways, Interstate 55 between Chicago and St. Louis and Interstate 44, which absorbed the old diagonal section from St. Louis to Oklahoma City, replaced the remaining segments of the original Route 66. The last outdated, poorly maintained vestiges of U.S. Highway 66 succumbed to the interstate system in October 1984 when Interstate 40 at Williams, Arizona, replaced the final section of the original road. In 1985, the highway was officially decommissioned.
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