Show road improvement Is not a luxury government gives facts about highways washington although the exact act state of road mad improvement in the united states at the present 7 time gram 1 not at known know it 1 la estimated by the department of agriculture that the total mileage of surfaced d 1 roads I at the RN end of I 1 wan between e tween se and miles 11 indications are am that approximately mum of surfaced eur faced roads of var tar inne types have been built during each year 8 since m 1921 exact game figures a as to how th this 1 2 mileage has ban been divided by types or term states are am not available A 1 considerable si db part pact of the work moreover ov be baa car consisted I 1 led of resurfacing g it I 1 therefore cannot be assumed that the net mileage of surfaced roada load has hag ben been increased during daring the last three years by the total amount of the new con action Str the net last complete survey ot of the road mad imProver improvement rent situation we was made 1 la 1921 when the total surfaced 1 mileage I lease was reek reeked reckoned ed at allea he ile new construction and resurfacing g since m 1921 have proceeded at a rh rate which abil h Is in believed to in affy I 1 th the me estimate are that the net gain since lines then than to Is well above WOOD miles good road not nor a lin L luxury in 1 in announcing these facts the de apartment part ment aruns attention to certain wrong as id ideas that are am current about road lead improve improvement luent improved roads it aya are not lux luxuries le for far the a movement of every vehicle over a road read there them 1 Is a certain coat at which 1 Is leu less if the road mad be improved than it if it be left eft 1 in a tote state of nature logically therefore the only limit that should be placed on expenditure for or road ad improvement I 1 Is the mount amount that can be saved in vehicular lag ing costs this amount or of course coull depends upon the number mume of vehicles using timing in ane road ad it is 1 pointed out oat that the country leaea ament more la in increased met cost of tag ing vehicles by not improving roada foods than it costs coata to improve them in other words worda it pays pay for improved roads mad whether it has them or of not net ind and it pays less by having them than by not having them another common error mys ays the de apartment part ment to Is that all roads road should be hard bard surfaced hard surfacing with cone concrete emote brick asphalt stone i in n or wood black 1 Is re on expensive pro alve pm process when its it met coot Is greater than the saving me BC crating from fro re the me improvement imPe ement hard surf surfacing JS 1 la not advisable it is if W pox this bible to make great grant improvements ID 1 road roads without held hard surfacing them tham and th these me improvements are quite quit effective in reducing the cost of travel ti t I when vehicles using neing a road mad are comparatively few me aa an car surfaced but g graded ded and ad drained dra lined road mad can be made rod and m maintained in satisfactory condition b by drugging dragging at very low I 1 coat it the um traffic me la in BO an great at that an ansur faced road mad cannot be maintained in continuous cOn lumm good condition candi tion surfacing with storie atone sand hand I 1 clay h my or gravel at al though more mons costly than main simple grading will generally be compensated by the greater saving in the last cost of operating ties vehicle able over it arly when ban the traffic la Is greater than mae a gravel road read will carry a id bl tural how macadam aman darn surface can be economically conoll aby applied it Is out not me necessary ru u ry to use he one of the hard surfaced types until the traffic becomes very de dese dense se when that point 1 as reached hard surfacing to Is nere necessary seary rod and economical mord 1 all al department roads do should ha be improved says the I 1 department to the nexhat de it g gree that the traffic on them Jutt liles but no I 1 lat rom road d a should he mid be improved be yond ym d its earning 11 capacity when 1 IP principle tini la Is observed 4 1 the required ao nual expenditure for any type or of armul la with within the yearly savings in the ca coat mt of operating the vehicle it hai ban to carry in other words wards the return to the public in the form farm of economic granato transportation rt tation la Is the sole sale measure of the loft worth h of road mad improvement to say my that all 11 roada road should be hard bar faced the department points wt out Is merely another way war of urging eapen tures in elems of income stul still mother another common mistake la Is the idea that the there Is inch a thing as a permanent neat road emol this delusion lundon de map ay the department has baa been for far much dia disregard regard of road food maintenance none of the state tat highway 6 de part vart menta ments however any longer b bar bar bore thin error r it to la now thoroughly understood indent rod by b these public agencies that all it roads road regald regardless lIm of type gradually depre fall ind and wear out mt under ruder the wheels of vehicles and the action of the tha weather to keep a road ad to in continuously good order it ts Is necessary to start arltol maintaining u I 1 g it the day I 1 ita in com I 1 true U m la completed mapie ted |