According to lincolnway.jameslin.name, it claims that there was no good roads in the United States to speak of. Roads were "improved" when it was graded. Back then people were lucky if it had brick or gravel. Concrete and Asphalt were about close to coming out. Mostly the roads that were 2.5 million miles were just dirt and if rain came, it means no traveling by car. It was easier to take the train, rather then to drive on dirt in bad weather. Carl Fisher, also called the man of ideas, recognized the situation. In 1912, he dreamed of a highway expanding from coast to coast across the continent. He began calling his new idea the Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway. It costed about 10 million dollars to build it. It was a pretty low cost, even for their
