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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If you look at newspapers from the late 1800s, they make getting stuck in the mud sound like today's equivalent of sitting in traffic.
So annoying and also so normal.
But all these must wait because your only avenue of travel is taking its annual soak.
And you can tell people were mad because they got a little snarky about it.
But the agent of change, the hero Rhodes were waiting for, wasn't who you might expect.
It wasn't the doctors who couldn't get to their patients, or the farmers who couldn't get their goods to the market, or even the railroad magnates who thought Rhodes would strengthen the shipping industry.
No, the Good Roads movement came from a much more unified and powerful group.
Bicycles became a big deal in the United States.
And as soon as people had bicycles, of course, beginning on the East Coast, they said, we need better roads.
We can't ride these bicycles in the mud.
And that was the beginning of a push for Good Roads.
Bicyclists in the late 1800s were a pretty elite group.
They tended to be wealthy because bicycles were expensive.
And like other wealthy Americans at the time, they had power in politics and in business.
By 1880, they'd created an advocacy group called the League of American Wheelmen.
And before long, that group went national.
By 1890, its lobbying had steered Congress to spend thousands of dollars on road feasibility studies.
In 1893, at the Chicago World's Fair, there was a big Good Roads convention.
And a magazine came out.
It was Good Roads magazine.
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