Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North Carolina Volume 39-47 (9781130175646)



This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...of these counties have gone to pieces. Reasons will do for a certain length of time with some people; but it seems to me that the points which have been brought out this year have shown first that one of the errors--largely of the people themselves--is in regard to the cost at which they expect to build the sand-clay roads, meaning sand-clay, topsoil and gravel. We have too much of an idea that a sandclay road is a cheap road, as far as cost goes, and that you can build a road anywhere from $250 to $500 per mile. Now it is absolutely impossible to make any statement whatever to any community or county regarding what a sand-clay road will cost in that community or county without making a complete road survey of the county or community; because the factors that enter into the cost of that road are not only the grading, but location of the road and the obtaining of suitable material with which to build or surface the road after you have graded it. If you have got to move that surfacing material a mile, compared with one-half mile in another section, it will make the road surfacing cost a great deal more. The people are asking us to build the roads too cheaply. To my mind one of the qualities that you men here, representing the road builders present, must display in road work is to insist on thoroughness, not only in location but in every phase of the road work. That is going to be hard, because as Mr. Stacy has brought out, the minute the people have voted bonds or placed upon themselves a considerable tax with which to raise money to build roads, they want the roads all built at once. We have been carrying on considerable educational work throughout North Carolina regarding road construction. We have got to carry that still further now and show that in the en...


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  • Paperback | 314 pages
  • 189 x 246 x 17mm | 562g
  • Miami Fl, United States
  • English
  • black & white illustrations
  • 1130175642
  • 9781130175646


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