Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-02-12
FIVE GREAT TRANS
STATE ROADS ARE
NEAR COMPLETION
Chairman John N. Holder of State
Highway Commission Reveals The
Interesting improvements

lOllIlSC Vi TWO COlllplClC pdNCd hiSii
ways traverSing Georgia from north
to south and three Federal Aid High
ways running across the state from
east to west in the next five years and
possibly i'll four years is made to the
people of Georgia through The Week
by John N Holder, Chairman of the
State Highway Commission and well
known editor and state official
Chairman Holder in discussing the
movement being conducted by The
Week and other agencies for the bet
terment of Georgia said his depart
ment will be ready with the roads
when the several projects heretofore
outlined for bringing new industries
and improving farm conditions were
carried out.
1--WE are now working on a definite
program which will bring to Geor--
.gia in five years at the outside and
possibly in four years five trunk high
ways crossing the entire state" chair
man Holder said.
while we haven't as much money
as we could desire for building roads
in Georgia we are going to get an IN
crease when the money now being US
ed to pay for the deferred Western &
Atlantic warrants becomes available
for road building purposes. This
money will come from the gasoline
tax and will be turned over to the
highway department after January J.,
1927"
Chairman Holder agreed that there
are at least ten big things that must
beI done in Georgia in the next few
years if this state is to move along
progressively and he said one of the
things is to develop the highway trans
portation system to a point where 1t
it will serve all sections of the state
Much progress has been made IN
the last few years, however, and the
department soon will be able to bring
the trunk lines to completion by con-
Meeting up different projects.
"Under present plans" he said, I'VE
will have two complete roads of pro-
gressive type which will traverse the
entire state from north to south" he
said. "These roads will not be con-
structed the entire route with the same
material as different counties use dit
ferent kinds of material but they will
be built in a modern and permanent
way. The necessity of providing two
routes from the north to the south is
so great that we want to get them
both finished as soon as we can.
Parts of each of the two routes are
now paved and we must do the connec
ting work. While we are carrying out
these major projects we are also en-
couraging and helping in other parts
of the state which later can be used
in north and south trunk highways
Across the state the department is
pursuing the same policy, according
to chairman Holder.
eve are working to connect up the
three routes with Federal Aid pro-
iects now partly finished and when
this is done we will begin on other
routes" he said. "One of the cross
state roads will traverse the northern
section, one and probably two Will
cross the central section and one Will
cross the southern part of the state:
Chairman Holder said much of this
work is ready and that some of these
roads are paved for great distances.
'The connecting work will be done
in the next five years." he continued.
'This will be done with the best pos
sible road building materials available
and there will be network OF con-
Meeting roads. We will bring them up
to the highest possible state of eff
ciencv. These trunk roads, however,
will! give splendid highways which will
be available for people in all parts OF
the state.
Chairman Holder said there is no
longer any question about building
GOOD roads in Georgia. He said the
Overwhelming majority of the people
want to see this road system complet-
ed and finished as quickly as possible.
And another thing the people are
alive about is the question of mantle
nance" he said. There is no use in
snending a lot of money on roads and
then let them be ruined because OF
lack of proper maintenance. One OF
the chief items in our program is main
tenance and we are gong to see tnat
nroper provision is made Tor the mann
tenance of all highways on the State
aid Road system.
Chairman Holder said some of the
cross state roads would be more than
three fourths completed within one
wear, He said the highway commission
will push completion OF these roads
bnt would not do so at the expense
Of the needed short roads throughout
the state now under construction.
1--WE are going to give the state the
trunk lines and are going to carry out
onr construction program on the short
fines at the same time"