Download or read book Southern Good Roads, 1917, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry B. Varner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Southern Good Roads, 1917, Vol. 15 A motion was passed instructing the president to appoint a committee to study the economics of road construction, particularly in reference to maintenance. This committee is to take up with the various highway departments and find out from them the cost of con struction of various types of road and the cost of maintenance per mile per year of these roads, and the amount of traffic that goes over them. The subject of highway legislation was very ably discussed by Col. E. A. Stevens of New Jersey. One of the points that he brought out was that it is dan gerons to try to prescribe by legislative act methods of conduct of business of the state highway departments. Care should be taken that the hands of a commission are not tied with useless restrictions. He called atten tion to the question of bond elections for raising reve nue, and said careful consideration should be given as to the character of bonds that were to be used. Col. Stevens also brought out the fact that with the change in administration that would take place in many states the first of the year many highway engineers would go out of office because of political-change in the ad ministration. He stated that this was not fair to the road work of a state, and that the engineers in charge 'of the road work should not be changed because of a political change in the state. They should not be in any way political appointments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.