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WORLD'S HIGHWAYS.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS. Witliin the past twelve months, world highway development lias definitely passed from the stage of debate to one of action. More than £137,500,000 has been voted in this period by nations exclusive of the United .States for major highway projects, and, if to these sums lie added the cumulative sums expended for upkeep for other Governments and their myriad subdivisions, it is probable that the total will reach somewhere around £200,000. The significant fact rests not so much in the amounts, larjje as they are, but in the apparently universal recognition of the essential part played by the motor and tho highway in the world movement of goods and persons. From Tierra del Fuego to the northern reaches of Canada, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Scandinavian countries, wherever men have their habitations, there is an urgent demand for highway transportation and a consequent realisation that roads be built to carry the new and growing traffic.

J Everywhere we read of new regions j opened to trado and settlement by the i automobile, truck, and bus. The pic- ■ turesque but slowly moving bullock is ; giving way to the blast of the motor : horn. The llama of the Andes, the j camel of the desert, the dog of the Arc- ! ti' wastes, no longer plod their arduous | train alone. Slowly but sirrely the i motor vehicle is penetrating into the remote places of the earth, breaking I tho way for modern roads and modern | methods of travel. ■ To the man interested in market?. i this development opens up new and fas- • filiating possibilities of a futuro inter- ; change of commodities far beyond auyi thing of the past. , To the student of sociology it pre- . sents a picture of changed living eondi- ! tions. To the political observer it ' must connote a new understanding be- ; tween peoples as the ways of communi- | cation and of social intercourse are j made easier, together with a large new i responsibility for the public officials who must look after financial details nnd direct the development. Years will be necessary for a full fruition of the programme which the nations ol' tho world are new just beginning. Men must he trained in the economic and engineering phases of highway transportation and endowed with a sense of their public duty let'r.re the task can ho ar-errmplislted. Th>- material c-ft*t.s will V-e large, but the benefits, from every viewpoint, will be many times larger. | Measured in mere terms of dollars ! and cent', world highways constitute j possibly the largest siiurle poaee-tinir-I endeavour now fating tbe nations of j the globe.— 71 or D. Cliaw'n in "The American Automobile" CXew York''

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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 6

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WORLD'S HIGHWAYS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 6

WORLD'S HIGHWAYS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 6

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