Talk:History of road transport

Creation

I created this page out of the road transport article because I think road transport deserved a decent historical article (compare the enormous amount of stuff linked to history of rail transport). But it is coverly very deficient and has no sources.--Grahamec 03:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

It is a reasonable general account, but relies rather too much on just two sources. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

India

Why is there no reference to Indian roads like the Grand Trunk Road in this article? It was built in the 1500s and finds no mention, but American roads made in the 18th century are mentioned? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:58, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Probably because most en.WP contributors are from the US, with the UK second (I suspect) and that neither group know much about Indian roads....which is where you come in! EdJogg (talk) 11:14, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Why do you not add a new subsection to the Ancient Roads section? Peterkingiron (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Inconsistency on Macadam?

The section on Macadam claims that he developed a road surface material containing a mixture of soil and broken stone, but also says he was adamant that the stone should not be mixed with any other material. This seems inconsistent. I'm not sure which is correct, but I think Macadam's own method used only broken stone on the surface, whereas later engineers tended to add a binding material such as marl or chalk. Also (incidentally) from reading some 19th century texts on road building, I don't think Macadam's approach was as successful as the current article implies. Most road-builders believed (or found from experience) that heavy wagons and carriages broke up the surface layer and let water through, so that a strong Telford-style base was essential to prevent the road surface sinking into mud.86.183.202.215 (talk) 10:00, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Brick Roads

I noticed that brick roads are not mentioned at all within the article, which seems to me like an oversight. The Wikipedia article on Pavement (Architecture), as well as the article of Brick, has some of such information, but here it's absent. Pavement with brick may not have been popular for very long, but I think it worth at least a mention. 2607:FCC8:FFC0:A0:117F:2ECA:3D69:525C (talk) 04:15, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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