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Friday, September 10, 2010

Some More on the Lincoln Highway's Birthday

According to good ol' Wikipedia, Carl Fisher first proposed a coast-to-coast rock highway to a group of automobile industry friends at a meeting on September 10m 1912. he wanted it completed by may 1, 1915, in time for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition being held in San Francisco.

The Lincoln Highway was dedicated October 31, 1913. To me, this would be the official birth date.

So, I was wrong with the first birthday announcement if this is correct.

Good 'Ol Loncoln. --RoadDog

Some more on the AVUS motorway. It is considered the world's first motorway (interstate) and opened this date in 1913. It is a short twelve-mile stretch of highway near southwest Berlin. It is still there and still serves as an automobile racetrack.

Its official name is Automobil Verkehrs--und Ubungs--StraBe.

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