General Roy Stone, head of the Office of Road Inquiry, was using his position to revive the vision of a national system of highways, specifically “an Atlantic and a Pacific coast line joined by a continental highway extending from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco.”
Source: Are We There Yet? Building America’s Transportation Infrastructure Network, written by John Yow. The book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.
What happened in the world in 1903 . . .
