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Comment by thunky

5 months ago

> It is called "freeway" because "free-to-drive-on highway" would be too wordy.

This is wrong. "Freeway" comes from free flow of traffic:

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/freeway.cfm

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