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As you may know, Dwight Eisenhower was a longtime champion of the Interstate Program,

all the way back to the time of World War I, when as a young soldier, he was sent on a convoy

trip across the entire American continent, and he realized just how bad the country's roads were. So as president,

decades later, in 1956, Eisenhower proudly signed the bill that launched the interstate system

by opening up the spigot of federal dollars that would build it. But there's a famous story about Eisenhower that takes

place a few years after that. In 1959, Eisenhower is in his motorcade, driving through Washington

on his way out to Camp David when they get stuck in traffic. It's construction traffic,

construction of a new highway, in the middle of the nation's

capital. Eisenhower, as the story goes, was shocked and also appalled. In his mind, highways were

supposed to go between and around cities, linking them together like Germany had done with the Autobahn.

So why was an interstate cutting through the heart of the city itself?

By that time, there was little that even the president of the United States could do

to stop the buildout of urban highways.

But today, Eisenhower's original vision is getting a second look.

My name is Ian Koss, and welcome to the Big Dig Highway Tear Down Tour.

So what are we looking at here?

Today, Syracuse, New York,

a city that is taking the radical step of trying to reclaim Eisenhower's vision

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