Via Appia

The oldest known roads were laid in Egypt around 2,700BC but the oldest road still in use today is the Via Appia that runs between Rome and Brindisi in Italy. Its a comparative spring chicken, thought to date back to 312 BC.There are sections of the Via Appia where you can still see and travel on the original Roman paving, which is remarkably free of potholes. Britains councils could definitely learn something from the Romans.