The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-31

everybody concerned with the building and upkeep of highways dos all
that is possible to make old roads equal to the nw conditions or to replace
highway traffic of today. there will be difficulty in avoiding great waste in
highway work. and equal difficulty in making good roads" anything more
than a unrealzed promise.
Motor trucks are the reason why old road mr. old onctr,otior ro.bo,
arr passing away These trucks have been developed to their present num-
bers and carrying capacities by a conditions. Trucks offered speedy
transport 10 M nom places % easily reached by the railroads; they
offered transport OF the door-todoor basis. and without delay The army
too all that many automobile manufacturers could deliver. and the army
use Of motor trucks, at a time when railroad transport became for everz
attention of all who had goods tic transport, anywhere. Thu the and of tbo
war finds heavfyIaden motorsin the service of ordinary business rlvtro
me highways rom city to city in all directions, and making the nos of
smooth surfaces that were built at great expense fol a far lighter and easier
traffic
WORKING avo with roads hat we're expected, when USE as originally
intended almost exclusively by pleasure cars, to maintain their excellence
- Sueeti ANYWAY TRACKS aho goods wagons, are being deserted by all but the
trolley cars; thu motors, regardless of their heavy loads, are naturally taking
ue uackiess macadam or concrete routes. wing with the tourists and the
nppers LOT d snare IN n roads that besides being too light ito stand up
under heavy traffic ire also dangerously narrow for it,
Ferhaps IL is most too soc to expect official recognition If the con-
pleteness with which this change in road usage has already come into effect
ct hardly toe ION either. For at a time when road work that vas nmes
sarily left without adequate attention during the pertod Of the war is holm.
resumedb by Federal and State agencies.o on the broades lines INVOLVING vst
expenditures there should be immediate and adequate consideration of the
facts as o the increased demands on road surfaces by reason of thu ncrease
use OF motor"tr trucks. Money should be built into the roads only IN the basis
Of securing surfaces that cal stand up under traffic a traffic now is and not
undertaken.
1t is possible that something other than mere increase in the urahd1h
oil road surfaces would prove desirable Perhaps some plan % segregation
of the different classes of traffic, by routes that SHOULD he huut and matn
tanned with a view to the special kind of traffic assigned to each, would prov
ieahpie. fernap we are already at Ii stage when street railways should
be progressively excluded from highways altogether, leaving such needs as
they still represent there to be met by NEAR of ordinary motorb buses or
trackess trolley cars. Perhaps it will be found worth while to buudm main
carriers. thus gaining a feer coursef for the cars of higher sneeds At the
sam time that a saving in construction cost s effected for +hat saono. .
tn roadway that is lot subjected % the weight oft the heavy trucks
Not merely building for the future. but building for the present. requires
hat these considerations shall be taken inoa account by all who are in a
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