FreightWaves Classics: Good roads advocates met in Chicago 130 years ago

An example of a typical rural road as late as the 1930s. (Photo: Federal Highway Administration)

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The Good Roads Movement was active in the United States between the late 1870s and the 1920s. Road improvement advocates were able to turn what had been a local issue into a national political movement. The movement began as a coalition between organizations of farmers and bicyclists, such...

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