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Show vu DESTROYING THE CONCRETE ROADS. "Our concrete boulevard is being ripped up by speeding automobiles." This statement was made to the writer writ-er by W. P. Epperson, editor of the Weekly Reflex of Davis county. He said the newly laid concrete north of Kaysville already had begun to show signs of disintegration because of hard usage. "With the cars dashing along at 30 miles an hour, there is an irresistible suction." said Epperson, "which breaks up the surface of the road and some measure should be adopted to check this destructive speeding." None too soon is this warning being sounded. There is no excuse for this mania and a remedy should bo applied. ap-plied. Our laws governing highway traffic give but little protection against tho speed-mad auto driver, and it may be necessary to appeal to the automobilo houses in Utah to carry on a campaign of education, intended to point out to tho owners of cars the importance of so regulating tho rate of travel of machines as to avoid breaking break-ing down the best roads in the state. No one should be more concerned over the preservation of our concrete highways than tho driver of an automobilo. |