in palo alto you saw public support could help solve the problem of a dangerous and overloaded highway in pittsburgh it was downtown traffic congestion that was strangling a great metropolitan area  community action did for boston boston as the hub of the very complex highway system in new england all roads lead to boston and boston has kept growing swelling the towns around it today it's metropolitan area extends over forty two cities and towns with a population of two and one half million lines country roads so the outlying communities adequately but overnight they became city streets with through traffic hopelessly entangled as you see it here it became so bad that a couple fifteen miles say from stoneham north of boston to newton on the south side actually took over an hour of day here you see it on the map highway one twenty eight starting from gloucester the old fishing port it swings in a wide eighteen mile arc around the rim of greater boston all the way down to death with its last section increased value is in two adjacent land in our travels past property whose value has increased a hundred times over along this highway have sprouted seven great industrial centers now get hired by some of the country leading manufacturers and other centers are now being developed new well the new revenues that come to the old new england towns along the highway and not to forget our mr smith and thousands more like him areas arriving at his place of work without once having had to fight the boston traffic when the people of that six county pushed all the construction of one twenty eight in order to relieve traffic congestion i didn't know they were going to ring boston with a golden semicircle and that's what highway one twenty eight is called today boston's golden semicircle so far you have seen what improved highways and traffic control mean to a metropolitan area but all good roads are part of one great pattern the interstate system that serves the whole nation the great primary roads that connect the cities and then the roads the feed into the system we need good secondary roads to serve the rural population of small towns of america for that story we go to north carolina fly north carolina but only a few years ago the rural population lived largely in the back country from the few main highways and what was called dirt road isolation but on the people of north carolina decided on a ball rural roads program let's see how this investment is paying off your now typical farm home in north carolina it's morning and the families day has begun father and son are on their way one to the farmer's market the other to his factory job daughter has a few seconds longer everybody is on the move now one's life was lived pretty much around the farm but now twenty one thousand miles of good secondary roads going to the farm to a wider world the old dirt road isolation ended north carolina's children no longer tried for the old one room country schoolhouse everybody in the state lives close to good new highways like this one and good highways mean a good school at one time remote from the big town the farmer now drive directly to the city market over a good road a saving in time and effort making possible new and diversified crops that can be delivered quickly a big factor in the rap one of the dramatic changes in rural life is in the schools they are one room schoolhouse has been replaced by the big central school fifteen years ago these youngsters living twenty miles apart would never have known one another road leads to things people couldn't think of years ago it connects the life of the farm with the life of the town with the varied activities of people everywhere this is the payoff on the but north carolina isn't stopping with its program a secondary role its people have already decided to embark on a new program to improve their system of primary ways the first big investment is paying off i'm not carol and i want to invest again confident of a return but good roads alone are not always enough we need proper traffic regulations for motivation to travel and we need one more thing to we're talking of safe driving cars and roads have improved but the driver must improve to almost as great a challenge to communities as the road itself just how can communities go about a safety program to find out ways products all web clothing lokomotiv bought while rope and safety yes they work on safety here and they sell it hard in st joe it's a town that paid taxes maybe because they used to have two thousand a year they don't let you forget safety and s the evening still cross streets with extra care they don't lead to forget safety in st joe they run it like a million dollar advertising campaign but there's no million dollars behind it only the voluntary and we work a lot with a chair or insane till they believe in the educational principle of starting them while they're young maybe when this generation grows up safety will be embedded in its consciousness school children learn about safety at first hand right in traffic court i rest of the defendant approximately five forty p m for passing through a red light your honor it's late and i'm trying to make this last a lip read because i know if i don't get th vote than it is up to the court and by the testimony offered by the and then down by the police officer as to whether or not he is guilty that is the burden of the court they teach driving as a regular part of the high school curriculum in more ways than one teenagers have to learn about themselves that includes a knowledge of the machine they will drive and of the normal limitations of human judgment when right you've got to learn to put on your brakes a second sooner not a second later and i'm sure a lot of good books from our discussing these various problems and now i believe we have a few more reports have learned a lesson that as with liberty the price of safety is continual vigilance you have seen how various ways people in their own communities are getting together to do something about our highway situation freedom to travel safely and quickly and comfortably on our highways is not a little freedom on a big one as you must realize every time you got caught in a traffic jam or read the actual the figures in many states and many cities beside those you have just seen people are finding real answers to traffic community needs help we hope it may show how you too can help secure for all of us the freedom of the american role