Historical Roads and Highways

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers three examples of historically important roads. One is quite ancient, one is an important part of the development of the U.S., and the third is a more modern road that’s been lauded for its design.

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0:00.0	Do do do do do
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0:35.2	podcast.
0:36.2	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:43.0	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Fry.
0:48.0	And I'm Tracy V Wilson.
0:54.0	Summertime, which for a lot of people means travel time.
0:57.0	I, historically summer is when I travel the least,
1:01.0	except this year apparently, because I figure I travel,
1:06.0	since we are not burdened by having to pay attention
1:09.2	to like school year calendars and whatnot.
1:11.6	Right.
1:12.2	We try to travel when the big travel season isn't happening
1:16.4	so we can have it a little more relaxed. But this year I don't know why I just ended up with
1:20.2	lots of travel. But a lot of people plan road trips for summer getaways. I love a good road trip. I like to drive. So this of course has me thinking about roads and highways. Today I thought it would be fun for a lighter note to talk about a few such roadways from around the Western world that are historically significant in one way or another.
1:41.0	All of these also still exist in one way or another. All of these also still exist in one way or another.
1:44.8	One is quite ancient and it is still accessible,
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