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Show ROAD CLASSIFICATION URGED Necessary In Order to Carry on Successfully Suc-cessfully Highway Program in This Country, That a public road-building policy requiring re-quiring road classification according to function as well as responsibility for Construction and maintenance is necessary neces-sary in Order to carr on successfully a good roads program In this country, Is the gist of a treatise Issued recently by the Nebraska department of public works, on "JJow to Get Good Iloads." The classification policy, the Nebraska officials point out, has been found upon adoption abroad to be a highly successful suc-cessful one for highway Improvement. "That which has secured roads overseas," over-seas," says the bulletin, "should secure them here. First ! There Is the country road. Its primary function is to serve county needs. While its function Is vital linking farm and market Its use is nearly local. The county, therefore, should assume responsibility for it. It should be built and cared for by the county Junds. Exception should be made of certain roads in the counties coun-ties whose function places them In another an-other class that of state or federal roads. Second : There is the state highway, the aggregate of which constitutes con-stitutes the state highway system. These are the roads which, while serving serv-ing local needs in the counties, have for their primary function highway service to the state as a whole. The system is usually planned to connect the county seats, and all these and the various Bectlons of the state and the state capital. The state, therefore, should assume responsibility for these roads. They should be built and cared for through state taxation. Exception should be made of certain roads in the state whose function places them ln a third class, that of national roads. Third: There is the national highway, the aggregate of which will constitute the system of national highways. These are roads which, while serving county needs, state needs and Interstate Inter-state needs, have for their primary function highway service to the Soun-try Soun-try as a whole." |