ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
THE .“STAGE SYSTEM.” In the United States the Bureau of Public. Roads, which controls the immense national highway system of that country, has long recognised that needs of motor transportation will best be met by what it calls “ stage system .” of road improvement. That is to say, instead of spending the available funds on a limited mileage of ideal road, the money is spread out with the object of at once advancing the whole body of. the roads a stage above what they were. In New Zealand, similarly, our own Main Highways Board is working on the principle that what the public wants, is provision at the earliest date of the. greatest possible mileage of roads giving comfortable travel. The first step towards this highlydesirable end is the obvious one of maintenance. Such roads as we have must be so maintained as to give the greatest service of which they are capable. It is only gradually becoming recognised By local bodies that with better maintenance ordinary gravelled and metalled roads can be made to provide good travel under the traffic 'conditions existing over large areas of the Dominion. What is still more important and more Hopeful is that this better maintenance can be effected by a change of methods and without any burdensome increase in expenditure.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 142, 22 July 1926, Page 7
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218ROAD IMPROVEMENT. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 142, 22 July 1926, Page 7
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