this is the american dream of freedom on wheels an automotive age traveling on time saving super highways futurama has free flowing channels of concrete and steel but these wide lanes of reality actually measure out to just a few miles scattered far apart across the friendly face of our land we have become the nation on wheels with more motorized mobility that never dreamed of before so we have the greatest highway system in all the world yet can carry the mounting traffic of our growing greatness we're running out of room we didn't dream big enough here's the problem all mapped out three million three hundred thousand miles o unimproved improve to pave super highway country roads small city streets and here's the crisis two thirds of the way is now obsolete worn out integrated with barrier in conversion capacity and safety sure these were good roads thirty years ago when they were laid out but nothing lasts forever the waiting line forms on the right and that the head of the waiting line is your local highway engineer listen to what he thinks about our roads all over the county our farm to market roads are dying of old age not anybody's fault just a matter of time and not enough money to keep them up or make the modern most were built in the twenty's and on came th of the war you beat them up and broke them down and we've been using them more and more ever since what we need is to invest more money in good new roads instead of spending so much patching up war not mon what do the people think who must use these roads ask the farmer i think all the washboard rotted to ruination and come every spring the bottoms drop out and the milk truck driver we pay for roads by the way have them or not only we pay more for them when we don't have them don't have to have high top gravel is fine when it's created to keep down the dust and all the gravel in the county can keep a road from gavan in if a statue is not uncommon graded proper for all weather where side mill where and tear on equipment ways to time sucks everybody from the farmers right up to the family budget were gone more crops run more people run more cars and trucks trouble as we've just not been grown enough more good road and your accident rate rises too if you don't watch out ask the school bus driver yeah you have to be careful driving the kids over these roads sharp curves soft shorter's narrow bridges railroad crossings spring rains wash out the roads and whatever frosts rip them up so you can god knows school hours days other times you don't know what to expect ask the small town merchant our town has a population of four thousand and two except on weekends on friday night on saturday can justin heads are main arteries like a high attack customers passers by if they can find a place to stop what brings up store sales today is parking space it's as important to buy a home as shelf space and display windows investment the town can make lots of parking in small town and suburb in cities of all sizes the situation is the same up the best investment has yet to be made as this is america every day it gets worse shopping it's not just a matter of getting through the congestion it's impossible to find a place to park what can i do everything for american families travels at some time on the backs of our ten million trucks and what are you planning for their mother here it is expensive les bottleneck percent more than before the war by nineteen seventy five they say we will be driving eighty five million five o'clock u you got it made good job carnally paid for so you get a little home in the suburbs away from the city smoke out from the shadows of the factory into the sun and clean air raise a few kids some flowers and vegetables the big dream coming to but it backfired and a pipe dream exhaust pipe dream every night it takes longer to get home wasting more time and get no wonder everybody's acting so  pay for the safe and adequate highways we need highway experts wrote essays along with tens of thousands of others already recognize the highway dilemma as one of our nation's most critical problem  i am privileged to present the winner of the grand national award robert moses of new york robert moses new york city construction coordinator is a world famous highway planner a man who knows his business ten year construction program to cost five billion dollars a year he stressed there was no new solution for the tire nation rather a combination a good parking spaces any space a good road is any road able to carry its daily traffic flow safely and adequately and it doesn't have to cost a million dollars a mile to congestion with elevated highways raised by an aroused public expressway speeds over a densely populated area of brooklyn without disturbing rise below to deliberate through traffic to the underwater tunnel to manhattan connecting from the north of bora story street will soon be open with promenade for pedestrians on top local traffic on the bottom and runway expressways in between here is a four story proof that our modern highway planners with imagination and public support can solve our traffic problems we can have our super highways in the sky fabulous futuristic farms like this hollywood freeway interchange which sorts flowing traffic a ways that once if we start now to give our engineers the go sign to design dreams instead of detours on the way the people of the state of washington are using all of an increased gasoline tax and our license fund for the faster development better roads program many people favor toll roads like the new jersey turnpike financed by a bond issue another way to raise funds it's already paying itself way ahead of schedule proving that many of us who drive will pay extra by the mile and a every trip to travel a good road many states already have toll roads and more are now under construction or in the planning a few miles down the way pittsburgh is moving mountains and even relocating a railroad yard to get out of its traffic jam county thirty and state tax money is matching federal funds to pave the way when this boldly planned parkway is completely open to traffic the greater pittsburgh airport instead of being an hour away will be only a fifteen minute ride from the center of the city as has been done in other cities that's bergen thinking of four million dollars hole in the heart of the city to provide underground storage for thousands of cars above the surface in a full park well camouflaged the busy activity below or if not underground then stacked layer upon layer in the san francisco bay shore freeway is getting in shape for tomorrow's traffic as part of california's new ten year seven hundred fifty million dollars highway program financed by state tax on chicago is moving a city to build an eight mile long expressway from the city limits to michigan avenue wide as a city block into the heart of the loop and a lane miracle which will send traffic through the middle of the main post office building like a special delivery letter chicago and is rated their share of the ninety two million dollar car buyer bond issue interest and retirement to be paid for by future revenue from motor fuel taxes backed up by property tax borrowing money to finance the expansion is traditional with americans the time and money saved more than repays your investment if you wait to pay as you go you may not go  detroit is borrowing funds to build more miles of expressway and build them today instead of years from now limited access highways without stoplights from just traffic but that's korean left turn menace and dangerous intersection spacious roads of the binded lanes where free flowing traffic and save time tires gas as well as lives but the way of the green light isn't only on an expressway the green light must shine along improved neighborhoods street on a sunday way to church and the pleasure drive to waters a sun and go ahead must be fought for on the side streets we must fight for it every crossroads widening out congested intersection rounding square corners for the wheels of the automotive age we must boldly attack bottlenecks and traffic jams with left turn lane and modern interchanges service roads and better loading facilities free ourselves from the and from no place to park roads are dying of old age and come every spring the bottoms drop yap yap to be careful driving the kids over the engineers know the way it's ours for the asking if we last and pay our way freedom of the road is a hold of the first