An interstate highway system much as we have today was inevitable. There is no way modern America as we even remotely imagine it would have been possible without an interstate highway system.
You have a huge country with a large population, also many vast open spaces especially out west, to easily and efficiently transport people, goods, and services over those distances and do it with the individual freedom to come and go that we Americans have come to accept almost as a right, a system of interstate highways was a necessity.
You have a huge country with a large population, also many vast open spaces especially out west, to easily and efficiently transport people, goods, and services over those distances and do it with the individual freedom to come and go that we Americans have come to accept almost as a right, a system of interstate highways was a necessity.