Show narrow roads cost more than highway widening chicago and cook county vehicles travel miles every day over tho the paved highways leading into chicago according to the official estimate of government rind and county observers delays because these roads are only 18 feet wide instead of 40 feet and because of bottle necks and traffic con cost operators of these vehicles a minimum of a year to reach this conservative figure of actual traffic loss engineers assumed that the average speed on county pavements about chicago should be 20 miles an hour and assumed that each vehicle loses but 4 minutes each hour because of congestion this dally daily loss amounts to vehicle hours the value of this lost time in gasoline wear and tear and delay of passengers Is at least 3 tin an hour or a day any on ali the e basis of working days te loss losi amounts to this loss does not include the serious delays dela ys on sundays and holl holidays dayi when vehicles use the pavements as compared to on weel week days according to the traffic counts |