What Money Limit. Mean to Roads
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"PRESENT restricted expend' tun PRESENT for resurfacing of Class roads once in 20 years; Class IT road once in 118 years; Class III roads onc in 2,000 years."
These facts were contained in booklet, "Evidence of the Deteriora lion of the Roads," published by th British Road Federation, 4a Blooms bury Square, London, W.C.1, whic was made available to every M.I before last week's debate on roads i the House of Commons. This i reported on page 511.
Information for the publication wa voluntarily supplied by highwa engineers throughout the country. . was stated that trunk and classifie roads, which amount to half tk country's total road mileage of 184,001 need maintenance now estimated to co: £90m. In the past three years, arrea: have mounted to some £18.5m.
Adequate maintenance in the pa: would have saved the cost of palliative