
Alphabet Soup: Why Wisconsin’s County Highways Are Lettered, Not Numbered

In retrospect it seems oddly appropriate that it was Los Angeles that ended up setting the model for the rest of the country. By 1923 the city already had one car for every three inhabitants, more than twice the national average. The Los Angeles Traffic Commission, set up with the backing of the local automobile club and chaired by the head of a lo
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