Plagued by increasing numbers of cars, maintenance on the Going-to-the-Sun Road had become a perennial headache by the 2000s.
For instance, we settled on a particular itinerary between Going to the Sun Road in Montana and Yosemite National Park in California.
By the 1930s, the horses had been replaced by cars with the completion of the aptly named Going-to-the-Sun Road, a heart-in-your-mouth rollercoaster that climbs past cascading waterfalls and gaping cliffs up to the continental divide at 6, 646ft-high Logan Pass.
The driver was airlifted to hospital after the crash at The Rising Sun on the A4 Bath Road at Woolhampton, Berkshire, at about 12:55 BST.
But now I found myself looking at a map, standing on a wide road, baking in the sun like the rest of the tourists.
Road users' groups, the Sun newspaper, opposition parties and several Conservative MPs had been pushing for the fuel duty change, amid concerns that prices at the pumps were squeezing living standards.
It simply sits there in undistinguished anonymity on a low rise beneath a few scraggly trees, several miles from the nearest highway, almost invisible from the sun-baked ruts of a nearby secondary road.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
In a recent Sun newspaper column Mr Clarkson described the smash as his first serious road accident for 31 years.
Then I road-tripped through some of the most remote parts of Iceland under the midnight summer sun.
The road wound down to a barn and an open field, and then out of the sun and into the woods, where we ran over tree roots and pine needles.
Bake in searing Florida sun and serve on 45 islands scattershot over a 113-mile-long chain, connected by one long road.
This October evening, before the sun had entirely set, a pair of headlights turned in to the driveway, some distance away by the road.
It was late in the afternoon, the sun just going down over the fields, the last of the light filtering through the trees and shrubs along the road by the old hospital.
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