Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-05
LOCAL ROAD ON
REPAIR LIST
Perth Amboy Job in Official
Report Taken to Mean
Amboy Avenue
|0THER COUNTY WORK
Announce Warrenite for Lin
coin Highway From Metuch-
en- to Highland Park
The State Highway Department

The state highway DePdi eih~iis
nSas issued a list of the roads
hroughout the state for which con-
-.facts have been awarded for paving
land also of those for which con-
Etracts still remain to be let. among
these latter projects is paving oop
In Perth Amboy, the type or paVina
for which has not as yet peen DE,
lined. This is generally understood
10 be the Amboy avenue proposltion
is that is the only road within the
itv limits and part of the state
highway system that it in need OF
repairing.
The county has retained the part
pf Ambov avenue from point near
nslee street to the Woodbridge line
Ind this will be resurfaced by the
{rreeholders shortly. The state Will
ktay a new road from the point where
the county control ends, near ms
lee street. to the Woodbridge hne.
This new route, it is declared, VIII
do away with the bad turns In the
present road and also make the
grade less steep.
Another road job included in the
!. list published by the state depart
ment is the Highland Park-Metucn.
en- stretch. The contract mas not
been let for this work as. yet. out
the work will be done with warren
lie. This work has been deiayeu -
the result of efforts by the state 10
I have the county finance the WORK
under the reimbursement system
hut the freeholders refused to 40
the work as they were not certain
that they would be repaid.
State Contracts
TRENTON, June 5.-At the emu
of the present construction season
i. is anticipated by the state High
way Commission that over 800 miles
~of the new state Highway system
hich embraces 725 miles, Will be
an1pleted. This summer total OF
las miles are being laid down, the
cost being borne by the counties
through which the system runs with
the agreement that the state Is 10
reimburse the counties Ior Inns
work during the years OF 1874, 1870
and 1926. Temporarily the reim-
bursement act. under which TINS
work is being done Is repealed. All
the contracts between the state anu
fhe counties for the present work,
however, were negotiated last De-
cember prior to the passage or the
repeater which is to be effective Tor
one year.
The las miles to be built on the
state system represents only part Oh
the general road construction pro-
gram which is to be carried out dur
ing the 1922 season and has no rela-
tion to the work to be done on the
distinctly county road system. This
contemplates the improvement OF
about $50 miles at least.
The work on the state system has
already begun And contracts have
been let for over seventy miles, all
contracts must first have the ap-
proval of the State Highway Board
before counties can authorize them.
These seventy miles represents an
expenditure of S4,500,000. The total
l45 miles will mean an outlay this
summer of sS.2O0.0o0 for new con-
struction work on the states system
of highways. In addition to the
seventy miles for which the con-
tracts have already been awarded
to the lowest bidders. total of
twenty miles more have been adver-
-kjsed for and this construction is
bout to start.