Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-05 | Page 22 | Road Construction Big for Year 1919

ROAD COIJSTICTI BIG FDR YEAR 1918 That the American highways are in j for the busiest season in all their busy lives, Is the statement of Alexander Alexan-der Johnston in tho April issue of Motor, the national magazine of motoring An examination of the authors au-thors arguments will serve to con-i con-i vince anyone that road traffic in the United States will be heavier this year than ever before. There arc ai the present time considerably con-siderably more than 4,000,000 motor vehicles in service in 'his country, which Is probably 1,000,000 more than were running last .summer H-u', in addition to this, there will n? a volume vol-ume of freight haulage hv moro- truck over the highways which rai undreamed un-dreamed of a year ago. The heaw .mr? Increasing burden of the railwavs ha3 caused a Macedonian cry to be raised ; to the motor truck manufacturers, and the result will bo a general di-uslon di-uslon of the short haul freight traf-' traf-' fic to the roads. Also most of tho passenger motor cars sold this sum-mei sum-mei will be delivered over the roads. Here are four great factors each contributing to increased traffic on the roads. The total Is going to he impressive This condition may very likrlv force a redistribution of our highway high-way traffic. It is quite possible ; h..t the commercial traffic between the great manufacturing and shipping .iters will compel the ordinary tourist tour-ist traffic to seek the secondarv highway system. In fact, the great, directing agencies that handle tourist tour-ist travel are preparing for just this eventuality. This the author holds will be an almost unmixed blessinp. ' Tho fact of the matter is," he remarks, re-marks, "the greatest part of tho scenic charm of America does not lie on the main highways at all, but along the secondary' roads. Much of this historic atmosphere is to be found in i 1 the back country, far removed from J ! the busy arteries of commercial traf- I fic The attractiveness of unspoiled I country, of sleepy villages that hav I drowsed on unchanged from the dayi i 'ho revolution, the charm of prim't- M I tive life and of nature unadulterated by factory smoke all these are tc ' be found on the secondary' roads. And all these have been sacrificed in th'. rast by the motorist to the ono at- . faction of well-surfaced roads" 00