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Show been expected until 1960. Today we have some 55,000,000 vehicles' on our roadways. By 1975, we probably will have 85,000,000 vehicles ve-hicles in use and traffic volume probably will be doubled by 1970. If the nation is to continue to prosper, Dietz said, "highway spending must be increased to a level of some $11 billion a year over at least a 10-year period. "$284 Millions Needed for Utah Highways Some $284,000,000 would be needed to bring federal-aid highways high-ways in Utah up to adequate standards, stan-dards, according to Arthur O. Dietz, president of C.I.T. Financial Corporation, the nation's largest independent financing institution today. Dietz quoted a study by the American Assocition of State highway officials in pointing out that some 3,800 miles of U tali's federal-aid highways are considered consid-ered inadequate. Nationally, he explained, improvements im-provements are needed on almost 64 percent, or more than 429,000 miles, of the federal-aid system. On all roads and street federal, E state and local he said at least,. $50 billion is needed just to bring the .system up to adequate standards. stand-ards. Road spending in the United States, Dietz declared, must be increased to a level of some $11 billion a year, more than double the present rate, "if we are to solve the highway crisis." Dietz said federal-aid highway needs are particularly critical because be-cause the system's 637,000 miles, only about one-fifth of the nation's na-tion's roadway mileage, carry four-fifths of the traffic. Emphasizing Lhe seriousness of the nation's traffic problem, Dietz said the average rural road is more than 20 years old and was last surfaced more than 15 years ago. "Highway travel has climbed to more than two and one-half times the volume in 1931, when many of our roads were constructed.' Dietz said, "Traffic volume in 1950 reached a level that had not |