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Show 18-FOOT HIGHWAY ENOUGH Motor vuicle registrations and highway traffic have increased enm-in.uisly in recent years and will undoubtedly continue to in-tmus', in-tmus', but highway .officials do not tear the development of a genera gen-era comlilion ol" congestion or any breakdown in the roads constructed by reason of the increased traffic. Hi '.liway research and experience have developed typos of pavement ft:!ly capable of withstanding prcs-c prcs-c 't and expected future traffic. Eighteen feet litis come to be the luininiinu standard width for main highways and except for roads in the vicinity of largo cities and a few heavily traveled roads between certain cities this width will be ample for several years to come, says the Bureau of Fttblic Roads. |