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Texas Needs One and a Half Billion for Highways
The Texas highway problem requires more than 1.5 billion dollars to build and modernize highways, per the Texas Highway Department planning survey of December 1951. Texas's road network has expanded rapidly since 1940, with a 29 percent population rise and motor vehicles doubling to 3.4 million by 1951.
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