Car History 4U

Roads & Road Control

9.4.1 Roads

    • There were about 300 miles of “surfaced” roads in America in 1909.

    • The first rural concrete road was completed on the outskirts of Detroit in 1909.

    • The first coast-to-coast highway in the USA, the Lincoln Memorial highway, was opened in the early 1920s. It ran from New York to San Francisco. 

    • The M1, Britain’s first motorway, opened in 1958.

 
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