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Show S Maintenance Methods 7' Create Boulevards m, The Couvtor, Grants Pass. t; F , nowspapor. comes a story OWS"1 0bf maintaining roads td? them tho stfttus of VSriW wlwn the term "boul-K "boul-K ?. s applied to a highway eVWtWnk3 of wide stretches of ' ' 5 constructed at high cost Tare only to be found in S w 1re heavy traffic predom-b. predom-b. " That medium trnfflc roads gf E. "f V boulevards, if modern i M.Vnance methods are employ- rtrovenby results In the rrants Pass area. Maintenance departments arc , i istifled in a continuation ot nf iSiture year after year t rtoes no more than just hold Xt was originally there. Maintenance. Main-tenance. . -should gradually im-vw im-vw Brove existing conditions," accord-S2a accord-S2a ing to a recent report of the Am-erican Am-erican Road Builders Association. This is the basis of reasoning used in the Western states where economy and good judgment rules against paving roads when traffic Idoes not warrant. The adoption of scientific principles, prin-ciples, resulting from investigations investiga-tions into the practicability of using us-ing bituminous binders, has produced pro-duced the methods by which low cost highway surfaces are being converted into boulevards by highway high-way engineers. The Grants Pass improvement consisted of reoiling and resurfacing resurfac-ing twenty miles of the Redwood highway and maintenance engineer, engin-eer, James G. Bromley of the Oregon Or-egon Highway Department, who was in charge of the operations, I"1 classifies the result as a "regular boulevard". |