Show I PREDICTS NEW ROAD PLANS F 0 R FUTURE Freight roads and passenger roads road S are probabilities of ot the tho comparatively Y near future In congested sections o othe of ot i the country according to Chairman n George Georgo C. C Diehl o of the tho A. A AA A A- A. A Good Goo d Boards board who has sent a l df lon to this effect to the tho office o othe of f the chief o of engineers of the war department de do in response to a a. communication cation from rom Gen W. W M. M L Black Mr Diehl thus comments on the up to date data highways problem Thero There will never be a time when all aU roads aro of equal durability and nd carrying carrying car car- car 1 capacity Highways HIS and railroads railroads rail rail- roads are In in that they are both designed to carry traffic and general general general gen gen- eral rules which have been developed through scientific management of ot railroads railroads rail rail- roads s apply as well almost Invariably to highways s The Tho heaviest locomotives and rolling stock aro are carried on roads like the New York Central and Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania a and Union Pacific Their us uso 0 of over o er lighter coast constructed railroads railroad s would ruin the roads in a n comparatively comparatively lively brief brIer period Thero There must como come a n classification o of Ot f highways Over Over- class 1 i the heaviest heavies t motor trucks and trailers would b bo 0 permitted each truck should have hav e largo figures conspicuously placed o othe on n the sides to indicate tho the total weight that It was permitted to carry carn operators operators operators opera opera- tors and owners of ot the trucks should be prosecuted for using the heaviest heavies t truc trucks 3 on roads designed for lighter traffic It would be comparatively simple to enforce such provisions a as s there seems to be bo no defense of or th tho o proposition of permitting one ono or two heavy y trucks to ruin an investment o of ot f many thousand dollars on the lighter constructed highways At road intersections the highway hway capacity could be Indicated as tho the highway department should I believe ve ha have havo vo a traffic department under a chief chie f traffic engineer having to do do not with construction and maintenance bu but t merely with tho the control o of traffic It ItIs ItIs Itis Is extremely likely that It would re result result re- re sult suit ultimately in a system of or freight roads and pa passenger roads and that wider and parallel roads would bo be found to be tho the most economical method method method meth meth- od of ot laying laing out tho the highway system It is impossible to la lay out all roads of ot the tho heavy y form torm o of construction inthe Inthe in inthe the first place the money moner is 18 not available avail avail- able and secondly too many years cars would elapse before the more sparsely settled sections o of the tho country countr were developed It would not bo be at all difficult difficult dif dif- to break bulk bulle when leaving le the tho heavy traffic roads and In a a. comparatIvely comparatively brief brier time an excellent theory of 0 highway construction would be developed de developed do- do whereby each locality would be Able ablo to determine the amount it was feasible for them to expend nd on each mile mUe of highway construction |