Who built the first road

Who built the first network of roads?

The first network of roads was built by the Romans who were experts in road building.More than 2000years ago they planned and built a network of roads, which covered the entire Roman empire and made every corner of it accessible. Messengers, traders, and government officials -mainly soldiers - travelled on these roads between the capital city of Rome and the provinces. At the end of 4BC, the Roman roads were fortified so that the heavy war chariots of the generals could also travel on them. But gradually deep furrow started appearing on the pavement, and the chariots used to moves as if on rails. The most famous Roman road is the via Appia (around 540km long), which goes from Rome to Brindisi in southern italy.

Its original plaster is still well maintained at many places.

who is the civil engineer?

                John Loudon McAdam

It was another Scottish engineer, John Loudon McAdam, who designed the first modern roads. He developed an inexpensive paving material of soil and stone aggregate (known as macadam). 

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The world's first limited access road was constructed on Long Island New York in the United States known as the Long Island Motor Parkway or the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway. It was completed in 1911.

Past Further information: Gravel roads

In medieval Europe, before the 1200s, there were no organized networks of streets inside cities, merely shifting footpaths. With the invention of the horse harness and wagons with swivelled front axles that could make tight turns, urban street networks stabilized.

As states developed and became richer, especially with the Renaissance, new roads and bridges began to be built, often based on Roman designs. Although there were attempts to rediscover Roman methods, there was little useful innovation in road building before the 18th century. 

Between 1725 and 1737 General George Wade constructed 250 miles (400 km) of road and 40 bridges to improve Britain's control of the Scottish Highlands, using Roman road designs with large stones at the bottom and gravel on top, with a typical overall depth of two metres. They were so poorly aligned and steep, according to Thomas Telford, "as to be unfit for the purposes of civil life" and also rough and poorly drained.

The Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land.

Responsibility for the state of the roads lay with the local parish since Tudor times. In 1656 the parish of Radwell, Hertfordshire petitioned Parliament for help to maintain their section of the Great North Road.Parliament passed an act that gave the local justices powers to erect toll-gates on a section of the Great North Road, between Wadesmill, Hertfordshire; Caxton, Cambridgeshire; and Stilton, Huntingdonshire for a period of eleven years and the revenues so raised should be used for the maintenance of the Great North Road in their jurisdictions. The toll-gate erected at Wadesmill became the first effective toll-gate in England.

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                  Chandragupta Maurya 

Chandragupta Maurya of the Mauryan Empire in ancient India, built this highway along this ancient route called Uttarapatha in the (OMG)3rd century BC, from Patliputra or (present dayPatna) to Lahore extending it from the mouth of the Ganges to the north-western frontier of the Empire.

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