The first highway of the world was built in North Italy. In 1924, the king of Italy opened the stretch from Milan to the Comer See. In 1932, a 20 km long four-lane highway connecting Cologne and Bonn was inaugurated in Germany. The term 'highway' came to stand for the spacious roads that had separate lanes meant for long-distance traffic. A private German company by the name of HAFRABA, which was responsible for constructing the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Basel route, was the first to use such a term. It simply joined the word 'way' from 'railway' to the name for the latest means of transportation, the motor, and formed the word 'motorways', later largely replaced by 'highways'.
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