MAINTAIN OUR ROADS

The Maintain-Our-Roads campaign begun recently by the American Road Builders' Association is receiving the enthusiastic support of all federal, state and county public highway officials. The campaign is under the direction of C. N. Connor, Engineer-Executive of the American Road Builders' Association.

The general public is being asked to preserve the Nation's investment in highways and also to keep the public roads safe, comfortable and economical for motor vehicles by providing sufficient funds for proper maintenance.

The public clamor for reduced taxes and decreased governmental expenditures has brought about a serious situation in many sections of the country where road work, including maintenance, practically has been stopped.

A survey of the attitude of state highway departments shows that active support in the Road Builders' campaign will be given by the states. Attention is called by state highway officials to the immense cost of restoring the roads to their former condition if they are allowed to go down in the present emergency. Continuous maintenance is being urged by the states in conferences with county officials and in statements to the public. The cost of maintenance is shown to represent but a small part of the motor vehicle owner's return in reduced tire, gasoline and vehicle maintenance costs, which amount to more than half of the cost of motor vehicle operation.

The New York State highway budget, while reduced in total amount, appropriates exactly the same sum for maintenance as in previous years.

An official of a Middle-Western state says: "It is imperative that the user of the roads be given proper return for his gasoline and license taxes."

One state which has temporarily abandoned construction is now devoting all of its highway funds to maintenance.

The National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, the members of which cover 1,250,000 miles of highway daily, representing the travel of 43,000 rural letter carriers, is one of the large groups joining in the battle to maintain our roads.

The 3,000 counties in the United States have been enlisted in the campaign to reach the public ear with an appeal for proper maintenance of county roads. Twenty-two organizations of county highway officials affiliated with the County Highway Officials' Division of the American Road Builders' Association will actively promote proper highway maintenance. Every county has a large investment in highways. To preserve this investment and to secure adequate service from the highways together with minimum operating costs for motor vehicles, adequate and timely maintenance is absolutely essential. Neglect of proper maintenance for only a few months can result in a condition of disrepair that may necessitate reconstruction of the roads that is much more expensive than maintenance.

Progressive maintenance is advocated as a means of adding a definite increment of improvement in addition to keeping the roads true to type. Such maintenance improvement keeps the roads just a little bit better than is required for traffic. There is no investment in the highway before it is needed to meet traffic demands.

The Maintain-Our-Highways campaign includes conferences and public addresses before meetings of road builders and National civic organizations for the purpose of providing them with information to present to the public. Full newspaper and magazine co-operation is assured. Special material is in preparation for the use of county newspapers. Stickers will be used on letters and motor vehicle windows. Posters on road maintenance will be placed in county court houses and in gasoline filling stations. Letters are being mailed to all county and state highway executives asking them to do their part in meeting the maintenance situation on the highways.

Results of the campaign will be manifested in public savings and economy that will reduce highway transportation costs and lighten the tax burden on the property owner.

Grosso's

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