ROMAN ROADS FOR MOTOR TRAFFIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4488, 7 August 1930, Page 4

ROMAN ROADS FOR MOTOR TRAFFIC.

Commenting on the preparations for Ibu reconstruction of Regent Street, which was repaved in 19.19, the London Evening News said: —

“If eleven years is the life of a modern London Street, it means that one-eleventh of all the main thoroughfares in London must be renewed every year. Actually the proportion must be placed higher. Unless a more durable method of paffing is found, Regent Street's next surface will not last 11 years, and if traffic increases at the rate it is doing, may not last much more than seven or eight. It it not the authorities who are to blame, nor the ever-growing streams of traffic. The fault seems to be with the inventors. They have improved, enlurgetlj cheapened, and multiplied motor vehicles, but they have not improved the technique of road making. Substantially our roads are still made much the same way as the Romans made theirs. There is tt fortune waiting for the man who designs a silent, non-skid road ilia I will stand up under modern trallfe conditions for even a quarter of a century, it does not seem much to ask of the men who have invented chromium steel and gunniejiil iiud rubber tyres and ferroconcrete and carborundum and vulcanite and all manner of indestructible fabrics and materials.”