Show GOOD ROADS FINANCING FUTURE HIGHWAYS make mak plans plan now and place transportation transport port por atlon tation on firm foundation says say chief mcdonald by th the united states t of I A plan now the financing financing of highways for the future and place highway transportation which has hag come to be an indispensable part of our national life on a firm foundation this Is the advice given by thomas H macdonald chief of the bureau of public road united states department of agriculture for the consideration of every voter taxpayer and legislator we are starting out to construct a system of highways such as no nation ever constructed before the near est approach to it to Is found in france and germany and the area of neither nelt lier Is as an large as texas this great undertaking der taking Is being entered into because highways are not a luxury but furnish a real service have a real earning capacity and have become it national necessity for such an undertaking to be successful ess cess ful financing to care for maintenance reconstruction and new con cell st ruction should be planned for a long 1 ap period of years in advance changes in methods of ir raising alsing funds every everi few years uncertainty as a to whether funds will be provided and periods in which funds are not provided all iacre increase ise he final cost of highways such a policy would soon bring any private business to disaster development and increase in niini tiers leis of motor vehicles and the counci colnul dent need and demand for good roads red have come BO be rapidly that methods of raising funds have often been expedit ants ent s tor for JQ the time being consino ra ti alon on h has a I 1 apen it given yen not so the hie just distribution of the cost as to bow 1 0 the funds can be raised with the alie lost least controversy and the utmost ease all this leads to the conclusion abat the whole situation should be gone 2 4 1 Z 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 4 A concrete road in wayne wayna county new york over very carefully traffic st studies made and the cost distributed in pro portion to the service rendered the bureau of public roads estimates in ates that of the CM spent tor for highways last year ear 33 per cent was federal aid and motor vehicle revenue the remaining OT 07 per cent comes either directly or will eventually be paid from state and local taxes it la Is bell believed eved that a very considerable re adjustment of the source of revenues must be made so that a larger percentage will be prid paid by the road user and a lesser percentage from state or local taxes |