Show v utah ugh is i s behind sister ir states in road repair utah highway will win not in meet beet the demand demands of traffic tor for nearly 30 12 more year years at the current rate rale of road construction expenditures the I 1 president of the oldest national good roads organization report ed recently actually motorists face an even worse highway picture col E R needles president of the american road bunder builders association declared because substantial increases in traffic volumes weights and speeds state tate registrations of motor notor vehicles were up 71 percent 1948 last year over 1648 are doing much to invalidate albut all out efforts to overcome 0 state high way system deficiencies reported edt by r a congressional commit tee to 0 be during ur 9 the present year new highway high w auy construction on that system is is expected to reach the mark col needles a new liew york ark consulting engineer cited a 29 percent rise in utah traffic fatalities in the first four months of this year as one of the high h costs of an inadequate agh I 1 way network provided aided vided for the states state a ap approximately roxo abely motor vehicles les highway prospects are far worse than the average number of years needed to overcome deficiencies on all of the nations highways and are worse than prospects in any of the five states products w which ch border it col needles reported at the present rate of expenditure and if it no additional deficiencies clen appeared in the interim it would be 1066 before the nations highways would be adequate to its needs of 1950 1950 in idaho it would be over 19 years at the current rate of expenditures tures in wyoming more than 15 years in colorado nearly 17 years in arizona IS 13 years and in nevada nearly I 1 18 3 years good highway highways ho be said are vi vital tal to all ell res reil rents denta of utah because cause wh whether eth ev they use the highway g ways or not t the cost of h highway ig way transportation enters I 1 into nto every everything they eat wear 0 or r use sin since a all Items travel by highway atlease at least once before they reach the consumer if roads are bad and highway transportation costs rise the consumer thus must pay that added cost in the price of what be he buys 1 utah stands among the 48 states in the matter of time needed to replace deficient highways at the current rate of expenditure pend iture ture col needles said the number of years year a ranges from north carolinas slightly more than one and one half to rhode islands landIx Is 60 |