Huge public outlay for wide roads, originally designed for military use and now used heavily by civilians.  Where have I heard that before?<p>Oh right.  The US Interstate System! :-)<p>Incidentally for a similarly influential person in US history you have to look no farther than <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robert_Moses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robert_Moses</a>.<p>I&#x27;m in awe of the audacity of slipping unlimited power to construct roads into a bill about parks, while planning to become the person who would have that power.  The authority in question was the ability to construct parks anywhere, and the right to build access roads for them.  So he created a series of long narrow parks, and built big fat access roads down the middle.  That is why those roads got named, &quot;parkways&quot;!