Welcome to Episode 9 of the Preferred Shares Podcast.

Lawrence Hamtil, of Fortune Financial Advisors, and Douglas Ott, of Andvari Associates, were the primary researchers for this episode.

In this episode

- The Federal Aid Road Act of 1916

- Route 66

- Strong road advocate Cyrus Avery

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

- Influences of the Trans-Continental Motor Truck Trip and German Autobahn

- The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956

- Quantifying the enormity of resources needed to build the interstate system

- Opposition to the interstate program - scandals, corruption, inefficiency, displacement, and the continually contentious topic of billboards

- Looking back on the total economic benefits from the roads programs

Episode resources

How The Interstate Highway System Changed American Industry, Lawrence Hamtil, 3/7/2024

The Golden Age of American Railroading, Iowa University Libraries, June-Aug 1989

America on the Move, Eyewitness, 11/3/1919, page 4

The Greatest Decade 1956-1966, pt 2, USDT FHA, updated 6/27/2017

1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, Eisenhower Library, 1919

Essays on the Effects of Highway Spending, Daniel Leff Yaffe, 2020

All Those Numbers: Logistics, Territory and Walmart, Jesse Lecavalier, May 2010

Highways and Globalization, Taylor Jaworski, Carl Kitchens & Sergey Nigai, May 2023

The Highway Capital Problem, USDT, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Program and Policy Planning, 1975

Benefits of Interstate Highways, United States. Federal Highway Administration, 1970

Additional reading

Curious to see what else we’ve been working on? Below are some pieces we’ve written independently that we think you’d like:

Andvari Q1 2024 Letter: Kelly Partners, CoStar, and Rates, Douglas Ott, 4/4/2024

Haypp Group: Ahead of the Nicotine Pouch Megatrend, Devin LaSarre, 2/25/2024

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Connecting a Continent: The Rise of the United States Interstate Highway System

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Connecting a Continent: The Rise of the United States Interstate Highway System