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Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Kickbacks Paved the Merritt Parkway
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
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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