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rounding rate irt the extort to complcte, over a 13-year period, what is known officially as the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Because the Federal Government has agreed to put up 90 per j cent (up to 95 percent in certain ernes) of the cost of building this system, commonly referred to as “the superhighways”, most States have been trying to scrape up the, money for their shares. (In the regular grant-in aid program for primary and secondary roads, the Federal Government and the States split 50-50.) The supei^ highways are averaging out around $1.2 million a mile, however, with cost reacting $4 million a mile iri metropolitan area;, where 42 per cent of the interstate money is going, and many States, including Virginia, have been unable even tp put up enough of their 10 per cent money to get; all of Uncle Sam's 90 percent money.
Inasmuch as the Federal Government is dmmitted by the Highway Act of 1956 to spend nearly $25 billion on the interstate sys tem, apart from its 50-50 contribu
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