Doug Gelbert
ASIN: B00E4W2T86
Publisher: walkthetown.com
Pages: 209
By 1911 it was apparent the automobile was not going to be a passing fad. Henry Ford had sold his first Model T from an assembly line in 1908 and the price of the car targeted at the middle class was dropping every year. Enthusiastic motorists formed automobile clubs which promoted the building of roads and opportunistic promoters lobbied to bring those roads into their towns.Many of these efforts took their cues from the Good Roads Movement that was founded in May 0f 1880 to improve the nations roadways for bicycles. In 1912 the Good Roads Movement inspired the Lincoln Highway Association determined to build a navigable road across the continental United States. Carl Fisher, who manufactured headlights and was a co-funder of the Indianapolis Speedway, was the leading cheerleader for the transcontinental road that eventually covered 3,389 miles and passed through more than 700 cities ...