The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-10-20
BIG BODYBUILDING
PROGRAM IN SIGHT

Fifteen to twenty years of build
ing good roads lie ahead of the Unit
ed States. Under the program which
the country has adopted there Will
be built. during that time 10000
miles OF improved highways which
will constitute the Federal-aid high
way system and an equal or greater
mileage of state and local roads.
when the great job is done, the
transportation facilities of the coun-
try will far exceed those OF any other
nation. past or present, in the world
The highways of the ancient Romans,
whose fame has come down thru the
centuries. will pale by comparison.
Details of this vast bodybuilding
program are to be placed before the
Highway Education Board at its con-
ference in Washington October 26 TO
2s. inclusive, by STATE Highway En-
gineers and officials OF the Bureau OF
Public Roads, United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture, to whom has
been entrusted the work OF planning
and supervising the construction OF
Federal-aid highways. The plan will
be presented TO enable the Board to
proceed authoritatively with its
work of devising aids for schools
and colleges to which road-builders
of the country are turning for COM
petent highway engineers.
officials of the bureau place the
aggregate cost Of the Fed, ral-aid
program alone at about S3,OOO,OOO'-
900, spread over the twenty-year
period. They base this estimate on
an average cost of $4,000 per mile.
The average cost, in turn, takes into
consideration all classes of improv-
ed roadways from the cheapest to
the most expensive types. Approx
mately one-thlrd of the proposed
system, or 10000 miles of improved
highways. already are either built or
building. The program is new
one. Up to comparatively recent
wears. bodybuilding in the United
States had been conducted without
special regard to a national system.
Highways has been constructed
where needed without considering
whether they would link up in the
most effective manner with the
whole network of roads to be spread
over the Nation. Engineers had
sought more to meet immediate and
local demands than the broader re-
ouirements of the States and nation.
The present Federal-aid-road-
building program, officials of the bu-
reau state, will contemplate the con-
struction of only such roads as III
into the national program and con-
tribute to the national system. Al
the same time the roads will be so
selected as to serve the most I'M
portant local requirements. win
marked notifications, the system
adopted In building the railways OF
the country will be borne in mind IN
the construction of the country's new
highways. There will be main lines
of highway communication between
centers and thousands of miles OF
the more sparsely settled regions and
into the rich agricultural sections
to tap areas whose population ana
products will flow over the new sys-
TEN.
New roads will be planned and
built-thousand of miles of them
where they will fit in most advan-
tageously with the entire program.
The bureau is continuing its research
work into most efficient methods OF
road-building, including the charac-
ter and wearing power of materials
resisting qualities Of varying sub