| Show WASTING ROAD MONEY AT A conference ot of road builders in chicago a few days ago facts of general interest and suggestions ot of great value to every community were brought out spi Space ace 1 forbids going into detail but we docant do want to call attention to the statement of one expert present at the meeting because we feel it applies especially to our own territory this gentleman said that the greatest mistake we are making in building roads today Is in sticking to original routes he pointed out that in the day of horse drawn vehicles roads were laid out to satisfy as many people as possible they followed any path or trail regardless of crooks and curves just so it passed as many houses as possible and still wound up where here it was trying to get to today we are wasting millions of dollars in this country by building good roads tor for auto travel along the same crooked winding trails millions could be saved by straightening them out because many miles could thus be cut from the original routes highways says the expert |
