Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-12
HOW THE STATES. AID ROADS.

HOW THE STATES. AID ROADS.
Jon by the recent Civic Convention at llllo fay
~ modified form Of the state aid" system foI
construction in the islands puts consider
lOdy OF public sentiment in Hawaii III line with
other American communities are doing.
hIiietin from the L., :. department al agrieul
emphasizes the immense strides which public
construction has made in the last II years
particularly what good usc has been made OF
funds. III: =.
hid Increase i'm total expenditures for roads
bridges, growth OF building and maintenance
ties under state supervision, and q sharp de.
E in the proportion Of contributions in the form
ftnte labor are brought out by statistics for the
dar year 1915 .=...
total length Of public reads in the nitcd
b outside the limits of incorporated towns and
was about 2, 452, 900 miles on January. 4, 1916.
is, about 277,0OO miles or ll.3 per cent. were
wed with some form OF surfacing The mileage
Raced roads has been increasing 1T the rate Of
10000 miles a year, aud in 1915 approximate
ehalf OF this increase was made under the sup,
on fof state highway departments. In add.
these departments supervised the maintenance
hrly 1000 miles of main and trunk line roads.
Increase in expenditures for road and bridge
In the United States has been from approx,
~ &B0,0O0OO0 per year in 1904 to about $2S2,,
DO In 1915, an increase of more than 80 per
The expenditure of state funds during this
period increased from about s., $50 900 10 more
153,000O0O. In addition, more than $270O0,.
v local funds was spent under state supervision
4 8, bringing tlie total road and bridge expendi.
managed by. the states 10 $S0,5l4.699. This
mt Is greater than the total expenditures for
. and Bridges from all sources in 1904
n gr0wth. in Importance of the state highway
|iments has been rapid. The first OF these
ties was created in 1891 in New Jersey and now
form of highway department exists in every
except Indiana, South Carolina and Texas.
+ their iAception these departments had expend-
January !, isllg, an aggregate of $265,350. S25
0ie funds for road and bridge construction,
Romance and administration. They had con
led over s60Qpe miles OF roads in cooperation
the states More than 10000 miles of these
. werS snrfaced.
l falling Of In the yalpc Of road work perform
y stature aud convict labor was from $2O,OOO,,
b 1904 when the total road expenditures were
|0000O, to about $l5,000,00O in 1916 when the
Expenditures had grown 10 $2s2,0OO,0OO. This
. reduction from % per cent Of the total in the
10 year to less than l2 per cent OF the total in
=. Increase In the use of better and more expen'
Ipes OF roads also Is shown by the recently com,
statlstIcs This development has been due, in
part, tothe great increase in automobile traf
II Il estimated that there are now approximate
IL million automobiles In use on the roads OF
.ountrF, or eur for every mile of road This
Nd motor traffic is in excess of traffic of all sorts
|ars ago.
IS cash road and bridge expenditures of the
la states averaged only SIS per mile of rural
Il IN 1894. In 1915 this average had grown Il
per mile New Jersey led all other states both
.0f and In 1915 with $29l and SAFE per mile re
lively Nevada made the least expenditure in
years- $3, Il per mile in 1904 and SIT per mile
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