There were, according to one estimate, about 60 miles of streets in Rome. And to judge from what ancient authors tell us, all 60 of those miles had traffic as bad as any modern expressway's...

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:46 The streets of Rome
2:18 Traffic problems
3:37 Caesar's wagon ban
4:14 The evidence from Pompeii
5:17 A snapshot of Roman traffic

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