By the late 1950s with the passing of the landmark Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, the location of the new highway was shifted south and included a high-level bridge across the Taunton River with a route through the center of Fall River through the Narrows and onto New Bedford and Cape Cod.
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The act lacked proper funding and never lived up to expectations until Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.