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Show , RIGHTS OF WAY FOR FUTURE USE Cities which are paying huge prices to extend and widen their ancienl highway systems should profit by their experience and buy right of way for future use at comparatively low cost now, advises George C DIehl, engineer en-gineer of Erie county, New York, writing writ-ing In the American Motorist. "The Importance of securing rights of way for future highways and acquiring ac-quiring additional land along the sides of old roads so they can be widened I when necessary cannot be overesti- mated," says DIehl. I'iehl points to Erie county's policy. Recognizing that piecemeal reme- ! dies did not provide a solution to the traffic problem, the Erie county bpnrd of supervisors directed the county engineer en-gineer to make a comprehensive study of traffic in all parts of the country. From his study there evolved the Greater Motorways system. The plans call for two connected series of widened and Improved highways circling cir-cling Buffalo from the Niagara river on the north to Lake Erie on the south. "Rights of way have been acquired on distant routes," says Diehl, "where the work of constructing new highways, high-ways, or the widening of existing roads Is not to be done for 10 or 15 years." |