Jostein,
You won't want a car in NYC, but can rent one on the way out of town.
The most hetic part of the drive will be leaving the city, and passing other major cities.
The real problem is daily commuter traffic into/out of the cities.
The Interstates are really pretty orderly until the commuters get involved.
General Eisenhower started the Interstate system in the 1950's. He admired the German Autoban and had bad road experiences after the first World War. (He was in charge of a convoy of vehicles that traveled 4,000 miles, coast to coast, to show off the military hardware to the public. He spent much of the trip traveling on dirt roads.)
As US President, he proposed a system of interstate roads to link the major cities in the USA. Part of the idea was that this would be a great way to move men and materials from one City to the next. The expense was large and the opposing politicians expanded the idea to include spending more money within the cities. It created public jobs and destroyed some blighted housing. Eisenhower objected, but the Democrats idea was the winner.
By now, some 50 years later, we have additional interstate highways that ring the major cities at 30 or 40 kilometers and provide a convenient by-pass to traveling thru the center of the city.
This has probably already been pointed out in a subsequent post, so I apologise in advance if that is the case.
The interstate highway system was proposed by the Secretary of Defence during the Eisenhower administration as a way to move military men and materiel quickly from part of the country to another. He claimed that after having bad experiences with the railroads during two world wars, something better was needed.
So, what was Eisenhower's Secretary of Defence's other job? He was Chairman of General Motors.
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Steve
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