The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1907-03-30
A STATE ROAD
ON EACH COAST
q a q
Is Favored by Col. Post Counties Can
Build Roads to Connect With
These State Highways.

As Florida SolonS Will meet in bien-
NAL session next week, it behooyeS the
people to beStir themselves to secure all
the good roads legislation possible from
that body during the sixty days session,
As failure to secure results during that
time will defer this vital matter for two
years. While the subject of good roads is
certain to occupy the attention Of the
Legislature, it is equally uncertain aS to
whether any effective legislation will be
enacted for that purpose.
Colonel {. c. Post, OF Scabreezc, has
written timely communication to the
Times-Union recently, in which he IA
vors the building of t-o great trunk
lines, at the expense of the state, run
ming parallel with the East Coast of
Florida and with the west coast The
different counties, he suggests, could
build roads connecting with these state
highways, thereby making t complete
network of good roads over the entire
state.
Colonel Posts observation on the list,
of convict labor on roads, in licensing
certain classes of vehicles, cost of build
ing, etc, are of particular interest at
this time His letter is AZ follows:
editor Times-U Union:
after numerous consultations to
which we ordinary citizens We're invited
and in which number uf Us took part,
the board of county commissioners Of
NoIusia county have by Il unanimous
vote passed a resolution to build hard
road from Daytona, VIA Del-and, (" Os-
teen, on the st. Johns river, and in con-
junction with Orange county t0cstabilSh
Il ferry across the said river near that
point.
Naturally the discussion of our own
immediate good roads problem has
drawn thoughtful consideration to the
larger proposition of state roads with
which every local enterprise of the same
kind is so directly related, and some of
us feel that we would like To- make pub
lie our views of the duty of the state
legislature concerning it.
"The writer and others with whom he
has conferred on the subject l. "i the
opinion that the state should build and
own two lines of hard surface roads en-
tending the full length of the state. one
on either coast.
chat the state convicts should be
used i'll the work, and that the state
should hold and exercise the right 10
license, with reasonable charge therefor,
any and all public carriers who wish t"
run automobile or other convcyances,
for pay, over any and all portions Of the
states roads.
This, while making it free To the pr
vate citizens and to our tourist trends,
who come for pleasure and recreation,
would bring revenue sufficient t" keep
the roads always in the best at repair,
thus relieving the taxpayers to that en-
tent and be no injustice to the owners
ofpublic conveyanees who would be
making money directly by the use OF
the property of the state.
provision should be made against
any individual or corporation securing
monopoly of the privilege for license,
graded so as to be fair to the man who
runs single vehicle carrying a halt
dozen passengers, rs to. any individual
or company which may desire to run
regular lines of vehicles, and it should
be open to any and all persons VII" wish
to engage in the business, to take out
such license.
Gin my opinion, the State should not
build lines crossing the state from
coast to coast. Leave that 10 the c0un-
ties, giving legislation to enable each
county to issue licenses to public car
riers over the roads belonging to the
counties
"A provision in the state law to pre-,
vent this license tax from being eA'
cessiye might, and l think should be