Show WHY IGNO 1111 1 TEST OP TIME city pavements carry very much salvor than the highways between cities practically all of tho traffic over our highways whether farm traffic tourist traffic bus or truck traffic passes into the cities and ana over the city streets in addition to this thia the streets carry strictly city traffic this point fa s very clearly proven by the traffic counts conducted by the U S bureau of roads in their investigation of california high ways many pavements carry as much ti traffic attic in two or three years as the highways between thern them carry in ten years to bo be a god paying investment a pe po must outlive the bond issue under which it Is constructed it la is tho the cities rather than the countries or state that havo have pavements which have accomplished this an investing body studying paving tyres types which does not include the alio records of tho the city pavements in its considerations before making final judgement jud gement and recommendations lays itself onen to severe criticism it is a well known fact that whether the basu base of a 11 city street be ph altic concrete coment concrete con croto qt or brick tho the wearing surface IV which if I 1 c I 1 I 1 must resist tho of tra flit is 11 generally a shock absorbing bolso reducing compound of some borne chae character acter with those these time tested facts to go by it Is a disgraceful waste of tax haycra money to lay miles of untried tipon of on oil state ind and county highways |