The oldest limited access highway in the U.S. is the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut. It was built to eliminate multi-mile, bumper-to-bumper congestion along the original U.S. Route 1 Post Road. Laying out its path through affluent Fairfield County, it turns out, required a scheme involving illegal kickbacks.
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