Saturday, January 19, 1952: New Jersey’s 118-mile Turnpike was completed, linking I-295 near the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington Bridge—becoming one of the state’s most important travel corridors. 🚗🛣️ #ThisDayInHistory #NJTurnpike #AutomotiveHistory #RoadHistory

🚂 On This Day – 1911 🚂
The Pennsylvania Road Improvement Train made its first stop in Harrisburg! Sponsored by the Office of Public Roads, PA Railroad, & State Highway Dept., the train toured 165 towns teaching farmers road-building with split-log drags & homemade tools.#OnThisDay #RoadHistory

What’s the Toronto-est street in Toronto? This super-old, super-long, super-famous one, of course It’s the hub of our city’s commercial, cultural and social life. But Yonge Street has not always been about glitz and glamour.

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Fun with social media, & Conrad the 🐿️‼️

Squirrel!!! 😂
Ghouls!!! 👻🎃

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A wooden prototype road sign, photographed in sepia tones in the 1920s. It has a hollow triangle on top of the post, and the sign shows a flaming torch with the word SCHOOL underneath.

Why did a blazing torch mean "school" on vintage road signs? Discover the brilliance—and occasional errors—of the UK's earliest sign designs. #roads #roadhistory #signs www.roads.org.uk/articles/cle...

🚧🏛️ On March 3, 1893, President Benjamin Harrison created the Office of Road Inquiry (ORI)—the first U.S. road agency! 🚜 With a $10,000 budget, it aimed to improve roads beyond dirt & gravel. Over time, it became the Public Roads Administration! 🚗 #RoadHistory