... 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 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?
... 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 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?
