The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 24, 1951, Page 11

THURSDAY, MAY 24, 195i, UNITED STATES HAS 1000 MILES Nation’s Roads Carrying Traffic Load What Endineers By The Associated Press O, happy day; the road. And you might make This development is really a the better the roads have to be. bounds since the war. And stat road-building projects— At the same time, faster than the number heavy drains on resources of a million dollars a mile to build way—without fancy landscaping. As for the traffic. vacation is almost here! State and loca} governments. -h more. simple matter And the result has been It costs a plain four-lane concrete high- —the nation’s traffic engineers keep records of the changing traffic load,-you know.. And they are able to pre- dict to some extent engineers had expected in 1965. authorities are nearly 15 years bek program. Ot course, those. are national figures—some regions are in better shape than that would sug- gest—some are in serious trouble The answer is. toll roads-- make the. motorist pay his cwn way. The practicability of this system. was proved back in 1940, when they opened the western Portion of the famous Pennsyl- vania Turnpike. This stretch of 160 miles. runs through moun- tain country. It includes sev- eral tunnels, many. bridges and @ lot of grade and fill. In short, it was fearfully. expensive ito build, But the toll system. has shown in he intervening years that.such, a highway can he fi- _ nanced by motorist payments. The most thoroughly toll-bound city is New York, which has a magnificent net, of super-high- ways leading. out of the metro- politan. area te the north and east.. This. connects with the well-known Connecticut cross- country highway—the Merritt Parkway. And. to get from New York to the Massachusetts line costs. 40 cents. Four tolls of a dime. each. To get out of New York to the Today's Horescepe Today gives fluency of speech, readiness in’ emergency and a love for art and music. 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The affic load equal to what ‘the And thus the public highway nind on their essential building “Ok BE ee ee AEE BS Woes weSt costs the motorist 50 cents right away, unless he takes a ferry—which is a quarter. The Hudson River tunnels and the Washington bridge are all 50 cents. It’s the only way the pub- lic authorities can meet the cost. In a way, history is repeating itself. Back in the 18th century, we had plenty of toll roads— pikes, they were called. And they ran over private land. The owner built the roads as an investment, and then charged what the traffic would bear. Of course there wasn’t much traffic by modern standards Then! in the 19th century, the canais came through and took away the freight wagons. And finatiy the Expected Would Be Needed In 1965 Almost time to roH out the creaky old 1949 car and hit sure e ty . half dollars, dollars. For Erp irae bing ve got plenty of change: with you. ever. They’ve been creeping up on us there are nearly 1,000 miles of toll roa ing—sometimes a dime, sometimes muc re are more toll roads and toll bridges and toll tunnels than now for the last 15 years or so. And at the present moment, ids in the country—roads where you can’t drive without pay- The more cars there are, and-the faster they go. Cars have been getiing faster and more numerous by leaps and 4 © and local gover nments have been forced to embark on ambitious just to keep the traffic m oving. costs of all kinds have been rising even @ of automobiles. fW2 ERY WEST CITIZEN ROADS Equal To Dimes and qparters, railroads: knucked out both the toll pikes and the canals. The. automebile, the truck and the bus have brought them backap And there's every, indication that we'll. sce more toll roads. toll bridges and t:.nnels—simnly be- enuse it is the sensibi: way of financing the. construction, !t also means, of course, that motorists yet fine roads — many of them without traffic lights, intersec- tions or difficult curves and hills. In all, 28 states have considered toll-road legislation; and 18 have put it through. The federal bureau of public roads has estimated tnat .t will cost 60 billion dollars, sprea over the next 15 years, to bring our highway system up to mini- mum adequacy. Present gasoline taxes and auto license figures do not come anywhere near this figure. And the states seem to be- lieve the toll gate is the answer. There are political philosophers who don't believe in tolls—call them 19th-century thinking. But the motorists don't seem to squawk much. For one thing— those super-highways are plenty smooth.driving. | Monroe PAUL P. 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