Show one of the factors retarding dim road development is lack of a appreciation p of the modern science of highway t building and using we know too many things about roads which are not so many of our highway r ideas are twenty years behind the times we caught up with the the engineer for in instance static all roads wear out the en enormous amous money in vested in ill them is thus a capital loss 1 roads do n not wear out the surface of a g good od road wears of course so does des the roof of a house but r re replacing lacing 0 the house roof dosen t dmn n an that tha the rest of the hous e is it good the surface of a road us i s its roof if it wears out it must int st be replaced hut but that doean doesn mean that tile the right L of way fit the grade foundation tio n and all the t c material is any less valuable b alp I 1 c t than at first trucks truck cs d destroy e st r roads inerd fore trucks should lou pay for roads that too is a fall fallacy aey y A truck no more destroys a ra rani when truck anil and road fit than a acaby aby carriage destroys a gaiden gar den patch atch it is lack of maintenance which destroys destroy roads it is fa following lowing too li light lit a road to be built for the traffic it will bear which destroys roads it is failure to enact wide tire and nl maximum load laws which destroys roads there money enough to pay for national bight highways we will ivill all be bankrupts more fal lacy acy there are fourteen million I 1 motor cars in the united states 1 if they are worth on an average of each which is an all underestimate they represent an investment of did we get bankrupt buying them we did not why should we get gel bankrupt buying seven million dollars worth of roads and the interest on seven billions will build today more national highways than we have as yet engineers and machinery to build transportation has been for us its americans nothing but rail and water for all our history now we are compelled to translate the word into highways and motors motors we understand highways as yet we oil only y partially comprehend and motor transport as a whole is yet a sealed book to most of bf us its the first step in opening it is to get et rid of fallacious thinking to ao realize that what used to be is no more true today than what is P roper proper road width and cost today will vill fit conditions condition fifty a hundred years hence |