Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "America's First National Road" video.

Your mention of the cost of repairs for the road reminded me of a local turnpike road the repair of which was much complained about. Apparently the most damage caused by any vehicle using the road was actually caused by the cart used to carry the material to repair the road. Of course part of the reason for paying to use a road was to cover the costs of repair. So something of a paradoxical problem. Your mentioning the use of existing Indian roads was also interesting. When I studied archaeology I discovered that many English roads in use today followed property bounders dating back to the Bronze Age. So over two and a half thousand years old. In fact many boundaries for village townships date from prehistoric times. Well, another of your interesting little gems.
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