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The Northeast has been a place for many firsts in transportation in the US, from the first commercial railroad in the US in [[Milton, Massachusetts]] ([[Granite Railway]]), first rapid transit system ([[Green Line (MBTA)|MBTA Green Line]]),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cudahy |first=Brian J. |url=http://archive.org/details/changeatparkstre00cuda |title=Change at Park Street Under; the story of Boston's subways |date=1972 |location=Brattleboro, Vt. |publisher= S. Greene Press |isbn=978-0-8289-0173-4}}</ref> the first limited access road was the [[Bronx River Parkway]], opened in 1922,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bronx River Parkway |url=http://www.nycroads.com/roads/bronx-river/ |access-date=February 13, 2023 |website=Nycroads.com}}</ref> New York is also where the first urban freeway was built in the late-1930s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 31, 1936 |title=EAST DRIVE LINK OPENS; Southbound Lanes Ready Today From 92d to 122d Streets |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/10/31/archives/east-drive-link-opens-southbound-lanes-ready-today-from-92d-to-122d.html |access-date=February 13, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ([[FDR Drive]]) The northeast would also be home to some of the first major [[Highway revolt|freeway revolts]] in [[Greenwich Village]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Flint |first=Anthony |url=http://archive.org/details/wrestlingwithmos0000flin |title=Wrestling with Moses: how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city |date=2009 |location=New York |publisher= Random House |isbn=978-1-4000-6674-2}}</ref> and would see the first major highway teardown ([[West Side Highway|Miller Highway]]) in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Levine |first=Richard |date=January 6, 1989 |title=Highway's Demise: Nightmare for Drivers |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/06/nyregion/highway-s-demise-nightmare-for-drivers.html |access-date=February 13, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Before European settlement, most of the Northeast was loosely connected by Native American trails, some of which would be incorporated into early-European settlement roads and turnpikes. One major early road was the [[Boston Post Road]], connecting New York City and Boston along the Connecticut and Rhode Island coasts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clark |first=George Larkin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWYlAAAAMAAJ&q=boston+post+road+indian+moccasin&pg=PA249 |title=A History of Connecticut: Its People and Institutions |date=1914 |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |isbn=978-0-7222-4982-6 |language=en}}</ref> Later these roads would be included in the [[King's Highway (Charleston to Boston)|King's Highway]], spanning most of the east coast. Smaller turnpikes would also connect cities across the northeast. These roads would prove essential to moving goods across the English colonies in the 18th century and would later play a large part in the [[American Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite web
The region saw a boom in canal-building in the early-19th century, with a major canal being the [[Erie Canal]], opened in 1825, connecting the [[Great Lakes]] to the Hudson River and Atlantic Ocean through [[Western New York]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maag |first=Christopher |date=November 3, 2008 |title=Hints of Comeback for Nation's First Superhighway |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/nyregion/03erie.html |access-date=February 13, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The first railroads would be built in the late-1820s and would explode in mileage in the mid to late 19th century.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Military enterprise and technological change: perspectives on the American experience |date=1985 |publisher=MIT Press |others=Merritt Roe Smith |isbn=0-262-19239-X |location=Cambridge, Mass. |oclc=11676079}}</ref> Places like Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Newark, and Pittsburgh would become large water and rail hubs during the Industrial Revolution and would see tremendous booms in population and use.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Van Oss |first=Salomon Frederik |url=http://archive.org/details/americanrailroad00vanorich |title=American railroads and British investors |date=1893 |publisher=London, E. Wilson & Co. |others=University of California Libraries}}</ref>
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