Show CHANGE IN HIGHWAY POLICY A NECESSITY writing under the heading the importance of planning for the future thomas H mcdonald chief ot the bureau of public roads in his recent annual report to secretary of agriculture jardane Jard lne said the studies of the flow and the growth of highway traffic made by the bureau in recent years have emphasized the fundamental importance of careful present consideration of future needs in establishing reestablishing re the location and planning of our roads the design of motor vehicles has been so perfected that speed considerably in excess of former possibilities can be attained without increase of hazard so tar as the cars themselves are concerned the remarkable developments that have recently occurred in the design and use of common carrier busses ar probably no more than the beginning of a much further development that Is to occur in this form of conveyance traffic congestion until recently a serious problem only in the cities has moved outward and now imposes its time consuming delays and menace to life and property upon the principal highways in the vicinity of the large metropolitan centers these facts must be taken into consideration in the planning of future federal aid improvements they point especially to the necessity of acquiring rights of way of ample width to allow tor widening or the making of definite provision tor future acquisition as needed to the importance of designing for safe use at higher speeds to the desirability sir of considering the improvements of arterial routes with the service of the entire way in mind and in the metropolitan areas to the urgency of grade crossing elimination wider pavements and the building of relief and bypass highways |