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Today in Interstate History

October 23, 1962

President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962. The law provided relocation advisory assistance for families and businesses impacted by new highway projects; it also created a "3C" (continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive) metropolitan planning process. Kennedy and others had pushed for both provisions so that work on the Interstate System and other highway projects would be more in line with comprehensive development plans for metropolitan areas.