The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-22
WOULD HAVE ROAD
WORK IN FALL ONLY
&C. Member Objects to De.
tour Business for
Motorists.
MERIDEN Is PEEVlSH

A member OF the Automobile Club Of
,-,srica expresses the opinion that the
lab ought TO attempt to have a law
.,ssed that would max II unlawful to
-otc over. repair or resurface any pub
w. road in the state before the latter
"a Of autumn In each year. He must
20 suffered, as other motor tourists
20 done. on account OF the repair
mo,t on some main travelled touring
s,ads. where motorists In the height Of
,he touring season are shunted of on
N detours which Tho press OF traffic
makes dangerous for all He writes to
,be club Journal TO say
.Tn the late autumn and winter there
.~ less than one-half the number OF
,.hlcles on the roads han are to be
,ound there In the spring and summer.
a,d IL IL safe to say that at least one
h.lf OF the people who use the roads
.,e seriously inconvenience by having
nom repaired in the spring and sum-
ner For some un~accountable eason II
would seem that the spring and summer
lime was the very season selected to
have the roads repaired. and so far rs
can see, for no very good reason ex-
eepting TO make people uncomfortable.
almost invariably In h spring and
summer when one goes out or the road
sor pleasure or business before he re-
turns he has been obliged to 20 over
certain sections. not i~nfrequenty as
much as two or three miles Of newly
nlaced broken stone, which ruin the
tires Of his automobile and render 1t
hard going for a horse and vehicle. or
ne is compelled to TO over a newly oiled
pad-sometimes following for a mile
or two a machine that Is squirting black
crease over the road. smearing and skid
ding his car-and not infreauently he
IL brought to a standstill by finding the
road barred with a notice road closed.
compelling him to make a considerable
detour. frequently over rough and rutty
roads, and not infrequently through ad-
Joining fields.
"while I admit that the roads have to
be repaired and that the users OF them
must expect TO be Inconvenience TO
some extent from time to time. I can see
10 reason why rs a rule the season
FOR making these repairs should be Mt a
time when the roads are mostly used
sather than at a time when their use is
much reduced-as I said before, per-
hsps 50 per cent. less than In the spring
and summer.
81, can't be said that the roads are
repaired In the spring and summer be-
cause that Is the better season for max
ing repairs than any other, for that ia
not true. The autumn season and the
Nrly winter (not ~infrequently the en-
tire winter) can be selected for the re-
pairs just as well as can the spring and
summer time. The rains In the spring
are quite copious. or more so. han they
IRE In the fall, The temperature is quite
- conducive TO good road work as Is
the spring and fall. excepting perhaps
when 1t freezes or the NOW falls. and
then the work car be suspended"
We tthe automobile editor) have been
very considerably rebuked, both edi.
torially and privately. by the Merider
Daily Journal for having had the
temerity to criticise the torn up con-
dition Of West Main street in hat Con-
nect,cut own without having had the
grace 20 say that the o from Meri-
den 20 New Haven aside from thai wal
fine. !, Is intimated that we used nc
reason, had no sense and were q
grouct, moreover.
II must be repeated that the road
complained Of IL certainly atrocious and
the day we came owe 1t was so deep In