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age maintenance cost per mile II
each county, the Highway Com.
mission would consider the traffic
volume, soil and drainage condi
tions, terrain and weather condi
TONS"
Tentative ALLEGATIONS will have
to be made until a cost accounting
system, just put into effect July 1
provides a "true picture of the
various factors that influence
maintenance COSTS" Babcock tolt
the group.
Betterments widening roads
resurfacing them, relocating them
and doing bridge work - will be
recommended by the division engi-
neers and county boards of COM
missioners and finally passed upon
by the Director of Highways. This
work would be done on state
wide needs basis under the new
program.
New construction jobs - build
ing or rebuilding a highway with
significant structural improve e.
ments-will be approved on a rel
alive needs basis or when road
renders a definite public service.
Within the funds available, the
plan sets out this level of service
for secondary roads:
Rural roads carrying an average
of more than 100 vehicles a day
will be given top priority for paw
ing.
Unpaved roads carrying more
than so vehicles per day and rem
dering a definite public service
may be considered for hardsurfac-
ing on a priority system consistent
with funds available.
Roads carrying less than 80 We
hicles per day will be stabilized,
but not hardsurfaced.
The plan spells out how subdi-
vision roads, used primarily for
service to abutting property own
ers", will be handled and sets out
the standards they must meet to
be added to the system.
AS formerly practiced, subdivi-
sion roads will be paved only if
the property owners to be served
pay the equivalent of 81 square
yard.
Criteria for adding subdivision
roads are the standard right of
way agreement; Is per cent of the
lots must be individually owned;
and minimum of three residences
per tenth of a mile.
Minimum construction standards
required are: (1) Grade to a min
imum width of % feet, exclusive of
side bitches. (2) Minimum paved
width of 20 feet. ~ A minimum
base of six inches of top soil,
gravel, crushed stone or equivalent
base material. (4) Adequate and
satisfactory storm drainage. (5)
Grades and alignment should meet
suit Bile engineering standards
based on area and site conditions.
(6) Roadway must be paved to a
minimum width with a plant-mix
pavement or bituminous surface
treatment to meet state Highway
Commission specifications.
A contingency fund for storm
damage would help defray the alb
normal cost Of storm damages to
the secondary road system and re-
store those roads and bridges to
their pre-storm condition. This
would insure against a county los
ing most of its allotted mainte-
nance, betterment and construction
to repair storm-damaged roads.
A secondary road bridge fund
would help defray the tremendous
financial drain on any county for
new bridges and improving sub
standard bridges. A substandard
bridge would be any bridge with a
capacity of less than eight tons
gross.
A special fund for access voads
to public and industrial facilities
would be used to construct, i'm
prove, or maintain access roads to
industrial sites and schools.
The new secondary road plan is
the first of its kind to be proposed
on a statewide basis. Several divi-
sion commissioners worked out
similar plans under previous adj
ministrations to cope with their
particular constituents.