Show HIGH ON POOR HIGHWAYS motorists pay one third more over bad roads dy by ea M BL duffy the mot 0 who pays 0 out U t a dollar in car operating expenses in traveling over high type roads must pay in ID traveling file saint saina distance on intermediate termed ter mediate late type roads the travel cost or of the same distance on low type roads Is cost of gravel these rhese costs determined by prof T R n ass agg and U H S carter of iowa state college for the imaginary average car clearly indicate the high cost of traveling over so called callad low type rond rondi i according to their calculations cu tile cost of driving over gravel and so on to Is one t ne thard greater than driving over smooth concrete on cretti for tile the sake of convenience let it be conservatively considered that the cost of driving a 0 car over concrete Is live cents a mile A aclin will then buy 20 miles of ravel on hard pavement the average motorist now dow travels some miles yearly at therefore nn an intimated istl mated costa cost of saw if the motorists traveling all to be done over intermediate type roads rather than concrete the additional cost for this privilege would I 1 be ua 54 nut but if the motorist were compelled to bump over low type roads the extra travel cost would bo be 11 1 which 1 Is that could be better stent money on improvements improvement A motorists motoi tats association tins has just pointed out that 10 16 states this year spent less money on improvement than they did last year even in tile the face of mounting car registrations obviously this cannot be called economy for every mile of unimproved ato ed road a community tole tolerates rales costs the taxpayer hird hard cash through extra car expenses which have to do with fuel and oil car depreciation tire wear aud and allied items clienter Clie Clien aper per motoring can only come tuii through more extensive highway tin prove mentA and these must come through the expedient of making more money available for highway construction st klon |