Road Reconstruction and Returned Vehicles.
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WE HAVE RECENTLY made reference to a proposal to the effect that. returned military motor vehicles should be used solely as part .of an irrimens& scheme for the reconstruction of the roads of Great Britain, arid we suggested that, even if the requirement in vehicles in this connection proved not to be mifficient. to take up the whole supply, the adoption of any such scheme might be utilized at least to solve thenroblem of what is to be done with the foreign vehicles Odell, at the conclusion of the war, will still be in the Possession of the British Government. The idea of using large numbers of vehicles in connection with the great work of re-organizing our roads from their foundations upwards, comes out again in the extremely interesting paper which Mr. Rees Jeffreys read recently before . the Town Planning Institute. '
Nobody is better qualified than the Secretary of the Road Board to put forward a. practical solution of the great problem of bringing our roads up to a condition that will enable them to bear the traffic of the B2Q future, and the scheme which he puts forward in considerable detail appears to be absolutely sound from all points of view.
He points out that, during the war, there has been established in France a very successful organization under the command of Brigadier-General Maybury for constructing and repairing roads.. General Maybury has under him some of the most capable road engineers, :foremen, and workmen that we possess. At the same 'time, the Road Board has established in England ap organization for dealing with work on roads required by government Departments. Bath organizations possess the necessary plant for their work. The suggestion is, then, that these two going concerns should not be allowed. to die irnmediatelY upon the conclusion of war, but should be partially maintained on a civilian basis with voluntary workers.
The temporary road organization thus made available would set about the work of thoroughly reconstructing some 15,000 miles of road and strengthening