This is the third in a series on cities in the USofA. I don’t yet know how many there will be total. The first entries can be found here:
Urban Core
Urban Core: Lessons
It’s one of those great stories that might as well be true. The legend is that General Eisenhower, touring a conquered Germany, saw how efficient the Autobahn was for moving troops and supplies. When he became President of the USofA just 8 years later, he moved to create the same system, to be called “Interstates” over here.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 