| Show r J ROAD CONSTRUCTION AND f MAINTENANCE J m Augustus E. t L West Riding of Yorkshire the 5 of the economy In the use of materials for road construction rs has lately been maintenance we D Ered by the county The 15 the motor car and heavy Z vehicle has upset all pre-l and the expectations obtaining a better surface at a reduced U nearly every county of road maintenance has risen th decade- In forty-one sib S unties the average increase has been Only In Staffordshire has p per j 3 been a decrease of 10 per jj East Hiding of Yorkshire gives lowest 4 per and r-tu highest Is to be found In t tj Per cent where L Increase has been kept down to 7 4 1 r the success Is attributed to tm ups of the toughest basalt and the of the roads each year with a quid bituminous In the rat Riding the total increase for mi maintenance for the decade was t per Between 1890 and 1909 it cost of the roads showed of per and cost per mile rose from to an Increase of nearly 80 per Used Coat of The mileage of the main roads cared ir by the West County Coun-Din 1909 was as compared with In The total cost of these in 1909 was or an In- of over the cost in fie materials used consisted of and and local The m of granite and had an m between 1890 and 1909 of equal to per The it of limestone and also of dross has The local 's used for moorland roads here no change has been The cost of steam rolling In the Riding has Increased from 1890 to In or an Increase per The West Riding sur-t In commenting on this Increased of It certain that had not t- gradual change In the class of road r taken place the additional cost t be more striking today than is e Proof of this is given in hose districts where the roads are lust being at a cost if some cases nearly or quite double hat It previously This would I to Justify still higher Jr to meet the more exacting and In the Riding an in that direction Is being having been j on tarred materials between 1908 Upon tar spraying or tar shing nearly was ev I summer of the experiment t Ordinary tar-surface t will pay for since It r the life of the metal by quite I Jo Per cent or and I consider r t money spent for this purpose in I districts where there is much i traffic is wisely spent Value of Tar i The county surveyor of recently reported that the General opinion among county rs was that road tarring or results In a saving of 20 to 25 per i pent of the cost of road taking the average cost of tar spraying at per Umi u to tar costing to per mile per annum for Nothing more satisfactory than tar has been Both of lug U are admirable In the proper To re-lay the road to a considerable depth with good material previously impregnated with tar 1 me more and where the Is moderate will not require repetition for Ave or six The plan of spreading not tar on the surface ha proved to be more than a dust palliative for by and binding the gives protection from the disintegrating effects of and the road be dry to a depth of at least three-fourths of an and every particle of dust be swept away before tar Is put down and then no rainfall till the tar lias fairly sunk the process will be an absolute Expenditures for Care of Quite in accordance with the suggestion of the new road about representatives of the non-county boroughs and urban and rural district councils within the West Hiding County Council's administrative area met at Wakefield to consider the applications to be made to the highways committee for grants or loan for the development and road Improvement funds act of The dial mi an stated that the traffic In the West Hiding had largely Increased not only lu volume but In the weight of carried over the Motor traffic and motor-propelled machines had now come to and the belief was expressed that there were more motor cars on the roads in England and Wales than on the roads of any other country In the The road board In the first year would probably have about at its the ratable value of the West Riding was a little more than and If the distribution of the money was made on the basis of ratable value 11 would be entitled to about The engineering advisers of the new road board especial attention to the reduction of the cost of maintenance of the and a considerable amount of money Is likely to go In improving surface of the Information In regard to the of roads was also especially desired by the and It was believed that by universal standardised with due regard to the requirements of the different progress would be |
