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Show A'LLOW for future traffic Surprising Facta Stiown in Count Taken Tak-en on Roads in Tennss35c Automobile Au-tomobile b Doubled. (Prepared by th- I'.nlt"J Slates Department ot Agriculture.) In h:ildii-x a road liberal allowance should he ruadt? for future increase In trailic, says the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. A traffic count conduct- Oklahoma Hard-Surfaced Road Before and After Completion. ed by the bureau In co-operation with Tennessee officials on a number of roads In Davidson county, in which Nashville is located, shows surprising facts when compared with a similar count' in 1916. During this period automobile au-tomobile registrations have doubled, while the number of motor vehicles on the road is five times as great as in 1916. In 1916 horse-drawn and motor-vehicle traffic were almost equal In volume. In 1921 horse-drawn traffic had decreased only sllgtrtly in volume and constituted 16 per cent of the traffic, traf-fic, motor vehicles constituting 84 per cent. Observations In this and other counties coun-ties lead to the conclusion that volume of traffic may increase In much greater great-er proportion than the number of motor mo-tor vehicles and will also depend to a large degree on the condition of Improvement Im-provement of the road and on the economic eco-nomic conditions in the adjacent territory. |