ABSTRACT
1-15 and U.S. 93-95 loop around downtown Las Vegas, joining just to the north, and the west of the old core of the city. Called the "Spaghetti Bowl" for its long, strandlike circles of road, the meeting point of these two highways was long the best of many examples of what was wrong with traffic in. the fastest growing city in the nation. Conceived in the late 1950s and built in. the 1970s with money from the Interstate; Highway Act of 1956, 1-15 fulfilled the axiomatic role of highways after World War II. "If you got it, a truck brought it," the saying went, and trucks traveled in droves on the new interstates. 1-15 gave Las. Vegas an easy connection to southern California and the mythic postwar paradise of the California Dream. Its intersection with U.S. 95 linked the existing road to Hoover Dam, making Las Vegas a new crossroads.
