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Show CO 00KXKK 0KKKK000KXK0 Good Roads Hints 00CCK0-CKCK000CK Last year the government gave the states sill.OOO.OOO to help build 11,300 miles of new roads. This is a record. An additional 12,500 miles is being compioted. ' The mileage of surface roads in the United States is Hearing the 500,000-mile 500,000-mile mark. In addition to surfaced m..us. a considerable mileage has been t;;-.;.;,-d and drained according to en-iii'.vriug en-iii'.vriug standards. M,.;e than half the roads of Brazil are suitable to automobile trallic. .T'.:e state highway department plans on eliminating the so-called "dead man's curve" on the Lincoln highway about four miles from Greensburg. l'a., where seven persons have been killed and many injured. A census taken by the state highway high-way department shows that the average aver-age t ra flic over the Lincoln highway tn Wyoming during the present year Was 474 vehicles per day. |