Show ho bill L D LOCAL ROADS FOR LONG HAUL HAU L highways now being improved should ba 08 designed to care for increase in traffic by the th unit united e d states state department a of f agrico agriculture alture the united states slates Is now in a period of great development and in afew R few years many roads which now carry only local traffic originating largely within five or ten miles of the road aul ua be carrying a large percentage of through traffic much of it coming I 1 n from outside the state this la is tile the opinion of officials of the bureau lif t public roads united states department of agriculture based upon the report of two traffic censuses taken by the bureau in operation cooperation co with the state highway department of connecticut the roads selected were part of a fairly complete system of highways the first census showed an average of 2807 passenger cars and trucks passing the recording station a day and the second cars i and trucks forty seven per cent of the cars came from within the state drivers were questioned as to length of travel for tile the day and results showed average figures of 70 miles and miles tor for the two censuses the average haul for truck traffic was miles some of them hauling a distance of miles officials point out that traffic of this nature has developed in a period of something like ten years on a road which prior to r 4 LW 91 m h 44 A federal aid gravel road 1910 carried almost entirely local traffic it must be concluded therefore they say that roads which are now being improved to form part of through highway routes should be d designed to take care of a great deal more thai the local traffic or that which Is ex pecked to originate locally with ills coming of better roads |