Often I feel that people believe that paved roads are naturally-occurring, geological formations. As evidence, I submit the people complaining about road construction and maintenance work as if it’s a ploy by the government to obstruct their travel, or the Lemming that I ran into a few weeks ago who was convinced that people in poor, developing countries have to drive cars, because it’s too expensive to build bicycle infrastructure.
Often I feel that people believe that paved roads are naturally-occurring, geological formations. As evidence, I submit the people complaining about road construction and maintenance work as if it’s a ploy by the government to obstruct their travel, or the Lemming that I ran into a few weeks ago who was convinced that people in poor, developing countries have to drive cars, because it’s too expensive to build bicycle infrastructure.
That’s the result of cars being the global default.
100 years ago you had loads of routes that were only accessible by rail, not road.
Yes; North americas first transcontinental connection was the Pacific railway, finished 1845. It was completed before the first highway was ever built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad