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Among the many features of the Model T, one feature is that its chassis is as high as 30 inches (about 0.76 meters) above the ground, so it can overcome poor road conditions and drive on the wilderness trails of the West.

So people drove this kind of car to the west.

However, because the roads used for horse-drawn carriages in the west are so rudimentary, the roads are not only uneven and bumpy, but also often too muddy or slippery to pass.

As a result, calls for road leveling appeared in various places, and the "Good Roads Movement" spread rapidly across the country.

In fact, the "Good Road Movement" existed before the advent of automobiles.

In the early days, the "Good Roads Movement" was dominated by bicycle riders, who since the 1880s have called on the government to level roads in cities and villages to make cycling safer and more comfortable.

In particular, some people who have been to Europe have seen that European governments have maintained their roads well, so they have also called on the governments of ugly countries to learn from Europe.

At that time, the ugly country was in the late stages of the Gilded Age, capitalism was developing rapidly, oligarchic corporations and business trusts monopolizing all walks of life were constantly emerging, businessmen were looking to money, the government was rotten, and the upper class was full of greed.

Many issues that affect the lives of ordinary people, including infrastructure degradation and environmental pollution, have been neglected.

As a result, many people also used the "Good Road Movement" to express their dissatisfaction with the money worship of the upper class, hoping to awaken the government's attention to civilian life.

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the participation of car drivers, the "Good Road Movement" reached its climax with great momentum.

There is a demand not only for the re-leveling of roads in cities and villages, but also for decent, car-friendly roads in the vast western wilderness.

At this time, the ugly country has gradually entered the era of progress, the commercial monopoly has been broken, environmental pollution has been controlled, and the opinions of ordinary people have been taken seriously.

As a result, the topic of road construction in the west has received widespread attention.

But Rome was not built in a day, and it was impossible to build a road network covering the entire territory at once in such a vast west.

At that time, people were thinking about how to plan and build the first road.

Carl Fisher of Indiana played a huge role.

Fisher, an early automaker, built a 2.5-mile groomed closed road in Indianapolis to field test his design.

Later, he found out that the car performed much better on the smooth road than on the dirt road.

So in order to better promote his products, he contacted several peers and discussed financing the construction of a concrete road from the east coast to the west coast.

This will not only allow the performance of the car to have more room to play, but also meet the needs of people in the "Good Road Movement", so that people will have a good impression of these car companies, and then they can expand their own sales.

After looking at Fisher's closed roads, most car dealers agreed that raising money to build the road was a good decision.

After careful business research and analysis, they drew up a road plan: from New York to Chicago to San Francisco.

The name of the road is "Stone Highway from Coast to Coast".

The road was expected to cost $10 million, and at the time, it was completely affordable for the automakers to work together, so they decided to do it.

However, there is one car dealer who has a different opinion, and he is Ford.

Ford believes that roads must be built, and there will be more than one road.

If we raise our own funds to build roads, we can do it with one or two, or even five or ten, but the problem is that the roads can't be built.

At the end of the day, people will think that we have to build the road as a matter of course, and if we build the road to San Francisco, the people in Los Angeles will not be satisfied, and if we build it in Los Angeles, the people in Seattle will not be satisfied, and in the end we will be thankless.

When it comes to building roads, what we need to do is to join the people of the "Good Roads Movement" and ask the government to do it.

Everyone thought that Ford's words were very reasonable, so with their joint efforts, Congress appropriated funds, and the plan to build a highway connecting the east and west coasts was officially put on the agenda.

In 1913, the Road Construction Committee was established in Detroit, which already had the prototype of the City of Automobiles, and was chaired by Henry Joy, a respected veteran of the automobile industry at the time, and Fisher was the vice chairman.

The name of the road was also changed from the originally crappy "Coast-to-Coast Stone Highway" to the Lincoln Highway, as Joey believed that the road would keep the different parts of the Ugly Country together, just as Lincoln once united the North and the South.

The road was also the first official tribute to Lincoln, and was even years before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

When the road construction committee was formed and Fisher was elected vice chairman, he was not present, but had already traveled west to plan the road.

The tour, known as the Hushir Tour, followed a trail traversed by the Hushir, a native Indiana native, into Kansas and Colorado in the west.

He felt that the Hushir Trail was gentle and suitable for road construction.

So he told many officials in Kansas and Colorado that the road would pass through their states.

The officials rejoiced and paid to sponsor his trip.

However, after careful study, Fisher changed his mind.

He initially used terrain as the first indicator for choosing a path, but later he changed the first indicator to direction.

He hopes that the road will be as straight as possible, so that the travel time between the east coast and the west coast will be shortened, so that more people will be willing to take such long journeys, which in turn will boost the sales of his own cars.

As for the topography, the level of industry at that time was no longer the level of the 19th century, except for extreme terrain, most of the remaining terrain could be overcome with large bridges or tunnels.

At the same time, he found that if the terrain allowed it, if the route from New York to San Francisco was as straight as possible, it could also bypass many large cities, including Detroit and Denver, as well as scenic spots such as Yellowstone, which was becoming popular at the time.

In Fisher's view, this is beneficial, because by avoiding as many large cities and scenic spots as possible, traffic jams can be avoided.

But such a plan excludes Kansas and Colorado.

Fisher kept his plans for the route a secret for a long time, because he wanted as much support as possible from the governments of the ugly countries, and he also did not want to disappoint state governments such as Colorado and Kansas.

Eventually, when everything was planned, the plan for the road was announced to the public by Joy, chairman of the Road Construction Committee, at the annual meeting of the government at the end of 1913.

On the day the Lincoln Highway plan was announced, the cities it passed through were filled with jubilation, and in some cases there were great celebrations and parades.

The people of Kansas and Colorado are frustrated, and some in Colorado have complained that the inaction of the local government has made the road easier to transport and more economical to the world lost.

This reflects the high expectations of the road at the time. The meeting happened to be held in Springs City, Colorado, and the Colorado governor, who was overwhelmed by the crowd, found Joey and Fisher after the meeting.

At his behest, Joey tentatively agreed to make a fork in the highway to connect Denver, Colorado's largest city, as he passed north of Colorado, and the governor of Colorado handed over the mission.

However, many other city and local governments have written to the Road Construction Commission to take care of them, when they heard that the highway was forking in Colorado.

Over the course of two months, Joey and Fisher received thousands of such letters.

One by one, they politely rejected the requests. As a result, some local governments came together to issue a statement protesting the opening of the back door to Colorado by the Road Construction Commission.

Such protests eventually led Joey and Fisher to decide to treat everyone equally, and to remove the special care for Denver, which had already been built and stopped.

Later, a small road connecting Denver was hastily built, and there was a sign at the intersection to remind passing vehicles, saying that the road to Denver was not the main road.

Before the road was officially built, Joy and Fisher set up Lincoln Highway offices, commonly known as highway embassies, in towns along the way to help and rescue vehicles in difficulty on the road.

And what about the road? Except for the small dirt roads that were carved out between the cities during the construction of these embassies, and some of the original paths that were slightly remodeled, the imagined smooth concrete roads are nowhere to be found.

Those small dirt roads are basically not suitable for driving, and cars on this road generally have to carry four or five spare tires.

Over time, the residents along the road became anxious: the office was repaired, but the cement road that was said to be good was nowhere to be seen, and whether the road was still repaired or not?

Actually, Joey and Fisher were also in a hurry.

It's not that they don't want to build concrete roads, it's that there is a problem with funding.

When construction began, areas like Kansas and Colorado that were overjoyed withdrew their money after confirming that the road did not pass through their doorstep.

In addition, because Ford, the leader of the automobile industry in the ugly country at that time, said that he only focused on producing vehicles and did not want to participate in this matter, the enthusiasm of the federal government suddenly fell, and only a small part of the money that was promised to be allocated was stopped.

Joy and Fisher didn't want the road to become a dead end, so they simply decided to return all the money allocated by the government, because there was not enough money anyway.

They then began to launch a series of speeches along the route, mobilizing governments, residents and businessmen along the route to find ways to raise funds to build the road.

Joy and Fisher educate the residents along the route about the relationship between road transport and urban development, and paint a picture of what the future of their villages and towns will be when roads are built.

They then approached politicians and businessmen along the way and analysed the benefits of the road for the local economy.

These two businessmen, who were highly eloquent, managed to convince people along the way to get their hands on the road to get involved.

Among them, one of the important reasons they persuaded many small cities was that the construction of this road required the use of cement on a large scale.

At that time, the cement production industry was a hot cash cow, and there were many well-developed industrial cities in the Midwest, all of which started with cement production during the Industrial Revolution.

The construction of this road can lead to the development of cement production in various small cities along the way, so Joy and Fisher have the support of many town officials along the way.

Beginning in 1914 and continuing in 1920, the Lincoln Highway was paved with cement in various parts of the route.

In the process of building roads, residents in various places have also fine-tuned the route of the road, and many places have been cut and straightened.

The towns, which had been cut off from the paths, were somewhat dissatisfied, so they began to build side roads on their own, many of which later became other highways.

For example, the Harding Highway named after Warren Harding near Ohio, the Wendover Highway in the desert west of Salt Lake City, and the Arrow Highway from Salt Lake City directly southwest to Los Angeles, to name a few.

In 1921, the Lincoln Highway was completed, and the construction of highways throughout the country began.

Realizing how stupid the decision was to divest, the Ugly Congress made amends by introducing the Federal Highway Act, which provides federal grants for states that build roads to a certain standard.

For Joy and Fisher, as they wished, the construction of the highway boosted the sales of automobiles, and the already good auto industry was better developed.

When the Lincoln Highway was still under construction, a female writer from California drove along the potholed dirt road to complete the first self-driving trip across the North American continent, and published the travel journal and travelogue along the way, causing a sensation in the ugly country.

Soon after, a number of prominent East Coast magazines began sponsoring travelers on continental trips along the Lincoln Highway and publishing their experiences in columns.

The popularity of western movies and cowboy culture at the time also drove many wealthy people on the East Coast to travel west.

Since then, people have been full of yearning for the fun of driving and the scenery along the way, and the long-distance road trip began and later became a unique way of vacation for the people of Chouguo.

Since then, the ugly country has become a country on wheels.

From this point of view, it is still necessary to admire the pioneering spirit of the ugly Chinese people, who are willing to drive out of the car, not just use the car as a tool.

For many car lovers, the car is a kind of faith, even life.

A car with vitality is, in a way, more of a sense of belonging to the owner than an ordinary apartment.

This is also because of the cultural customs cultivated by the people of Chouguo over the years, they have a sufficiently developed highway system, and people are naturally willing to drive on the road.

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