Show for better roads I 1 almost Aimo stover over night road builders are awaking to the fact that one of the surest ways to prevent highway accidents is to widen the road grades from fence to lo fence moreli mor elike ke a street instead of digging great bitches at the sides of the road and banking up the center like ike i a railroad grade the amount of dirt moved is practically ane same so no additional expense is involved the new type of road is i s much safer as a motorist feels more at ease on it than he does on the old turnpike style of construction the mere fact that dedoes he does not feel as nervous about running off the grade reduces the danger of accidents for he is inclined to drive straighter find and not wobble in passing another car its the same proposition as when you walk a narrow plank mccross a creek you are inclined to think you are going to fall off put an additional plank on each side of the one y you ou are wal walking king and you can walk wal k the single plank pank between the other two without any hesitancy A wider r road oad grade gives same feeling to an automobile au to mobile brav er this makes a safer road than merely widening the paving this common sense idea coupled with the tested methods of paving which arp ar now being used in the gestand west and which recognize the necea sity of a shock absorbing type of road paving to absorb the traffic impact will give the traveling public better and safer roads roada and assure the taxpayer a great deal more for his money than in thelast the past |