Rund Abdelfatah
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598 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Rund Abdelfatah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Over the course of several months, Tsai and his fellow highway obsessives at the AASHO met around the country.
They spread maps across tables, flagged roads that were already paved, and started debating where the new roads should go, the major highways connecting all these little tributaries.
They would be the most important roads, and people would know that if they got on one of those roads, that they would be able to go wherever they wanted to go.
And our man Avery was really interested in making sure that a lot of roads went through Tulsa.
Did Cy Avery have a genuine passion for roads?
Yes.
But his real love was Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And he had visions that went beyond car traffic.
He wanted to put his city on the map.
So even though the highways the association was plotting mostly went in a grid, north to south or east to west, Sy lobbied hard for his road.
It was shaped like a hockey stick because it didn't really matter to him where the road went after Tulsa.
So it ran west to east from Los Angeles to Tulsa and then northeast to Chicago.
Here's how he justified it to a reporter at the time.
By October 1925, there was a map with 75,884 miles of highways traversing the United States.
It was all very organized.
You could tell whether a highway ran north-south or east-west by its number.
All the major roads ended in zero or one.
So that a driver who knew that they were on one of those roads...
would know that it would be a better road and that that's the best way to drive.
Well, as you can imagine, the people in all those little towns,
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