For people who grew up in the suburbs and ghettoes in and around Motor City, these nameless roads became more than their name. So why, in the planning of major thoroughfares that lead in and out of a Motor City, would you even bother to give them names? Better instead to simply name them by how long they are, since as long as they get you to Rome/Detroit it really doesn’t matter. Just as in ancient times, the names of the roads leading to Rome was not so important as the fact that they WENT THERE. It’s no small coincidence that Detroit is known by the nickname “Motor City,” nor that Eastern Michigan has some of the highest per capita of automotive vehicles on the planet. Where else would you go? What possible reason could you have to go anywhere else? It didn’t just literally mean that every road constructed lead in and out of Rome, it implied that the point of having roads WAS to get to Rome. “All roads lead to Rome.” A historically well known saying of ancient times that was both simple and profound.
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