Fact-check: “It took almost 60 years to finish the last 8 miles of I-95.”
Verdict: Mostly True (72% confidence)
The core claim is substantially accurate: the final gap in I-95 was closed in September 2018, roughly 62 years after the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, and multiple contemporaneous sources (Portland Press Herald, Finance & Commerce, Transportation Today) used '60 years' to describe the timeline. The '8 miles' figure is documented by the Portland Press Herald, which reported drivers 'were forced off the interstate and onto other roads, only to rejoin the interstate 8 miles later,' and Jalopnik…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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