The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-01-30
CONCERNING ROADS.

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The present period roadudng throughout America may be
described period Of disagreement Tord has passed into the
discard The automobile has practically put Macada and his pro
c3ses Of the running trying
selves and TO hit the solution that changed traffic has brought
Tasppg Of powerrven tires and m be within reason in cost is
the eonundum of the engineers The Honolulu oadmakes have
yet reached that stage where the hun
reds of miles Of city thoroughare be rebuas the majority
Of them rreor be even properly maintained out Of current
supervisors state that the residents of Honolulu do not under
the road situation complaint
incorrect It the supervisors who do not understand The
resident and knows that there enough
any time in supervisors give Honolulu the
roads the Importance and the wealth of the city demand The
resident appreciates the position that
the doing probably the very best possible
conditions The chief complaint today that the supervisors per
at the fact that the position
which invites criticism and jufes the kicks The public knows
well the do and
the public further knows what little chance there
these needs attended long the attempt being kept
build and maintain the roads out Of the receipts Of ordinary
az the beginning of the and generally supposed
they had evened things bit between fourth
pressing political obligations they had thought Il
sa to assume that i would be pronounced settled policy that
roads would be built
ep but that the principles the frontage would be
force Instead the board appropriated small for fixing
oseet grades and has continued bandy
and hit miss road building continuing
the public past ten years and resulted in
the present boch known as the Honolulu streets 8
The have difficult
shoulder It. Whatever be the political consequences the
OF the board want their they
road based the frontage system
The only road bonds the city permitted
authorized under the frontage law that
be raised for the installation system
enough to provide radways sufficiently
to secure the low yardage cost that big alone give
We only wasting putting patches
roads and in laying bitulithic block by block a%E.
The taxpayers have been patient with
them the benefit of doubt patience
virtue and the time at hand when the residents going
maud performance and fewer promises in the good
roads f63
We have had learned
have been carried by others possible
could profit by the lessons they Among
road have been the of
of agriculture and while the road builders
they might send to the department for Bulletin 3d. which
work done during the thirteen States and the District
Columbia. ...ll. 49, #a33 saagsaa ft& n .t NJ
Over four hundred and eighty thousand
types OF roads for experimental and object lesson purposes
scted during the fiscal 1912 1913 the
Office of public making total of million
Of road constructed under the supervision Of this Office
The of roads built BRICK
btminos concrete htumnou
adam surface treatment macadam, aphalag osphat
oigrave ocorallne gravelmacadam gravel Stag andclay
sandmbo buntay she'll earth The object
tfena work during the past done at cost the local
communities Of $139S41.89. e 4.f7tH+a
The road work during the done in Arkansas
Georgia Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Nebraska North
South Dakota Tennessee Texas Virginia Wisconsin and the
trict Of Columbia .aE' a.S.N. at Z" ND