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the fastest way to be alone in a crowd of strangers going your exact direction.
means a wide, high-speed public road built to move traffic efficiently between places, usually with limited stops.
from from old english heah weg, literally high way, meaning a main public road as opposed to a private path — the high referred to its importance, not elevation, though later engineers raised roadbeds for drainage, making the name accidentally literal.
eisenhower's inspirationhe saw germany's autobahn during wwii and wanted one
interstate system sizeover 48,000 miles built across the us
one in five milesdesigned to serve as emergency airplane runways
rome's road network250,000 miles connected the entire ancient empire
for instance
route 66 — 2,448 miles, decommissioned 1985, still a pilgrimage
autobahn — germany, no universal speed limit on many stretches
pan-american highway — stretches roughly 19,000 miles from alaska to argentina
interstate 90 — longest us interstate, seattle to boston, 3,020 miles