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Which sentence supports the idea that the highway system
caused
damage to some communities?
"The system was first described on paper by the Bureau of Public
Roads in 1939, but it took
Eisenhower's passion for the project to put it
into motion." (paragraph 2)
"Eisenhower's signature not only authorized funds for 41,000 miles of
safe, efficient, and quick
routes to and fro, but it quite literally paved the
way for a road network that
would help in the case of an atomic attack;
the Eisenhower administration
was concerned with nuclear evacuation
routes and roads
that would be wide enough for military vehicles to
traverse with
ease." (paragraph 3)
"One of the biggest ways the interstate has changed the face of
America has
been through the fundamental changes in geography
wrought by the
construction of interstates." (paragraph 4)
"Other areas saw more of a bust than a boom, such as small towns that
did not receive
ramps to the interstate and were bypassed by travelers,
leading to the decomposition and eventual death of many rural
commities." (paragraph 5)
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