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Show LOOKING AHEAD It hasn't been so very any years ago, as most Milford citizens citi-zens will recall, when the easiest way to get an argument out of a man was to mention "good roads". The auto was just beginning to become popular, though sentiment was about evenly divided as to whether it would prove a permanent method of transportation or a passing fad. The good roads question was a natinal issue, and it was possible to find whole families divided as to the wisdom of building any better bet-ter roads than those in use for horse-drawn vehicles. Today there is no argument about it. Everyone from coast-to-coast, and lakes-to-gulf, is agreed 'that the auto will always be this nation's leading mode of transportation and that the welfare and prosperity of every community, large or small, hinges on the condition of the roads leading to it. Today the nation would practically collapse if it were forced to return to gravel roads and horse-drawn vehicles. Realizing this, those who are farseeing are insisting that every new road that is built be made wide enough to carry twice the traffic now operating over it, and that old roads, as they are repaired, be made correspondingly wide. The day is not far distant when about 80 per cent of the roads now in use in this country will be unable to carry safely and speedily the amount of traffic that will be seeking to use , them. It is a good point for our roadbuilders to keep in mind. It will be to the interest of the taxpayers, in the long run, to build wide roads from now on, and to make the old ones wider as quickly as convenient. Then the job won't have to be done twice, at twice the cost. |