The 28th president of the United States
This medallion portrait of Woodrow Wilson by Carl Paul Jennewein was part of the original Woodrow Wilson Bridge that opened in 1961. When the bridge was replaced between 2000 and 2008 the medallions were moved to the new bridge.
I tell you very frankly that my interest in good roads is not merely an interest in the pleasure of riding in automobiles, it is also the interest in weaving as complicated and elaborate a net of neighborhood and state and national opinions together as it is possible to weave.
An early automobile enthusiast, he reportedly spent an average of two hours per day riding in his automobile to relax and “loosen his mind from the problems before him." In 1916, he signed the Federal Aid Road Act, the first bill to provide federal funding for state highways. This Act and its successors transformed America's dusty and muddy trails into the most advanced and comprehensive road network in the world.
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