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Show Making Roads Wider and - - v -Thicker Is Big Problem Strengthening and widening roads is the great highway problem of the future, fu-ture, according to Engineering N'ews-itecord. N'ews-itecord. Roads will not require thickening thick-ening as soon as they will need widening. widen-ing. . Eventually all states will be expending expend-ing vast sums in providing a greater paved width and in thickening pavement pave-ment to carry heavier loads. There is little obsolescence lost In tbe modern paved road structure, the News-Record opines and it cites the experience of several states In which virtually all of the old roads widened or thickened were salvaged. Waste occurs where an old road has to be torn out entirely. If the right kind of base is put in the original road can be widened, thickened or resurfaced resur-faced without appreciable waste. |