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Show WIDER HIGHWAYS ADVOCATED Construction of wider highways,-to reduce the loss from inadequate inade-quate traffic facilities, was urged at the recent national conference on street and highway service. The adoption of wider highways is pronounced in some states, , many roads known as "super highways" being projected with at j least four one-way traffic lanes and sometimes six or eight, with the ; heavy trucks separated from the lighter automobiles, and with better bet-ter provision for highway safety. j Commercial losses from traffic congestion are becoming ssri- : ous. It has been conservatively estimated that the loss of the whole United States averages ten million dollars a day. The fuel loss and ; the wear and tear on cars and trucks due to stopping and starting j is considered comparable to the loss of time. j Highway officials, engineers and traffic experts are advocating advocat-ing improvement with the less expensive types of hard-surfacing, such as asphalt penetration macadam, of the secondary roads ev-i erywhere, so as to relieve the trunk line highways, which must necessarily bear the through traffic. This is to relieve congestion, and afford the higher-speed pleasure vehicles more room in which to cruise on hard road surfaces. j |