Clive Coleman wrote:

That's right, you stick to the cobbles and tram lines, I'll stay with
tarmac.

Roads were being macadamised long before cars or bicycles came on the
scene - McAdam himself died in 1836. However it was the campaigning by
the Cyclists Touring Club in the UK and League of American Wheelmen
(with their Good Roads Movement) in the US that led to widespread
macadamisation of road surfaces without which the early cars would have
been totally impractical. So hands off our tarmac thank you.

Tony