Arizona republican., 1920-02-26
The State of the Roads

The State of the Roads
 We feeby Illustrating this morning by means of couple of pictures the condition of the roads in Maricopa county after a It would take ten thou sand pictures to portray and then adequa tely. the miserable state of highways following Those whose required them within the last four days make trips country roads have again b>en impressed by the expensive ness of bad roads Some of the thoroughfares which by courtesy and custom call roads, have not roads at all-no- thoroughfares
 These pictures of two South Central avenue within a throw of excellent and expensive bridge which by weak link dirt road the north is joined a notorously imperfect and hole infested city pavement.
 The bridge is one of which we are all proud. It stood though on Sunday, as in previous floods. only monument to the builders the progressive spirit of the county at the time of it's building. But at the time it has at such flood times stood reproach to present backwardness in the of roads
 We have attempted to keep the bridge in mission by renewing from time to time at consider able expense the south side approach ing all the time that the big flood would sweep it and melt it away. Yet go building useIessy and expensively, nothing durable nothing permanent only makeshift.
 For a day the north side valley effcctualy cut off from the southside if Atlantic rolled between them. munities either side connected only by weather roads, when it is neither dusty, were separated each other by impassabty of the roads.
 suggestion made that high program for the county for which $4000000 has been expended by the highway commission would be good policy to include in the south way the bridge a series of huge concrete cuverts spans that in time of flood these might valve the bridge This suggestion
 
 mission.
 When will learn that permanency is cheaper than rfakeshift? There a time when the county poor build permanent roads but that time is not now. There time when all the water in this valley irrigation drawn from brush dams which the farmers expected and knew would go with the next flood But that was the best they could do then.
 Now, could not afford to depend upon such structures. We find dams much cheaper in the long run will find cement concrete roads cheaper than any apparently cheaper makeshift, by whatever name it be called, and most of which tried in vain
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