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Did you know?

... that the 1862 opening of the second Causeway in Perth, Western Australia, was disrupted by a young man on horseback who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?
... that in 1794, Old Windsor Road was the second major road in Sydney?
... that Stuart Highway is named after John McDouall Stuart, the first European to cross Australia from south to north?

... that a committee in the 1920s raised the funds to turn a collection of tracks into Anzac Avenue, the longest World War I memorial road in Queensland?
... that local Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell called for the Brighton Bypass to be scrapped, stating that to continue construction "would be cultural vandalism, on an extreme scale"?
... that a grader which broke down during construction of Gary Junction Road had to be towed over 800 kilometres (500 mi), travelling at just 3 kilometres per hour (1.9 mph)?

... that the Canberra road Yarra Glen does not have one of the usual roadway suffixes because the name sounds better without them?
... that part of High Street in Fremantle, Western Australia, was closed in the 1960s in order to reinstate Kings Square as a town square?
... the decision to only use electronic toll collection for Melbourne's CityLink was made in 1992, at a time when there was little practical experience of such systems?

... that the original Fremantle Traffic Bridge was built between 1863 and 1867 using convict labour?
... that though planning began in the 1960s, the first stages of the Geelong Ring Road didn't open until 2007?
... that on 4 April 2010, 18-year-old pilot Patrick Humphries made world headlines by using the normally busy Brooker Highway as an emergency landing strip?

... that Abbotsford Bridge was the last lift span bridge to be constructed over the Murray River?
... that the eastern section of Nerang–Broadbeach Road on Australia's Gold Coast is also known as Hooker Boulevard?
... that Great Northern Highway is the longest highway in Australia?

... that at a cost of A$812 million, the South Road Superway in Adelaide is the biggest single investment in a road project in South Australia’s history?
... that Brisbane's Airport Link tunnel was toured by visitors on a preview walk nine days before it opened?
... that Guildford Road in Perth, Western Australia was supposed to be called the Great Eastern Highway?

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