Concrete Roads and Their Construction: Being a Description of the Concrete Roads in the United Kingdom, Together With a Summary of the Experience in ... New Zealand and the United States of America
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Excerpt from Concrete Roads and Their Construction: Being a Description of the Concrete Roads in the United Kingdom, Together With a Summary of the Experience in This Form of Construction Gained in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America
One of the most pressing problems of the time in connection with public works is that presented by the necessity for improved roads to meet the demands of modern traffic conditions, which have resulted from the enormous development of motor transport during recent years.
The adoption of concrete is a serious attempt to grapple with this problem, which really resolves itself into a search for the ideal road, and so many of our thoroughfares and highways are insistently calling for speedy reconstruction that the present would seem to be an opportune time for approaching the question dispassionately and without prejudice, examining it in the light of recent experience and determining whether the time has not arrived for giving the concrete road a fair trial in this country. True, our acquaintance with modern traffic conditions has been brief, but, brief as it may be, it is sufficient to form a clear indication of our future needs and to serve as a guide for future methods.
Frequent reference has been made in the public Press to the headway made by concrete roads in America, where, owing to the wide adoption of motor transport, the road question has assumed serious proportions for years past. Thousands of miles of concrete road are in use there, and something like 75,000,000 sq. yds. are in contemplation during the present year. It cannot be supposed that a nation so keen at weighing up the possibilities of a business proposition would, after fourteen years' experience, continue to lay these roads on such an extensive scale were they not entirely satisfied as to their efficiency and economy. As might have been expected, there were partial failures, particularly in America, in the early days, but only in this way is progress attained - and the progress has, indeed, been great, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom - and even to-day, greatly as methods have improved, no sane person would venture to say that concrete road practice has reached finality.
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One of the most pressing problems of the time in connection with public works is that presented by the necessity for improved roads to meet the demands of modern traffic conditions, which have resulted from the enormous development of motor transport during recent years.
The adoption of concrete is a serious attempt to grapple with this problem, which really resolves itself into a search for the ideal road, and so many of our thoroughfares and highways are insistently calling for speedy reconstruction that the present would seem to be an opportune time for approaching the question dispassionately and without prejudice, examining it in the light of recent experience and determining whether the time has not arrived for giving the concrete road a fair trial in this country. True, our acquaintance with modern traffic conditions has been brief, but, brief as it may be, it is sufficient to form a clear indication of our future needs and to serve as a guide for future methods.
Frequent reference has been made in the public Press to the headway made by concrete roads in America, where, owing to the wide adoption of motor transport, the road question has assumed serious proportions for years past. Thousands of miles of concrete road are in use there, and something like 75,000,000 sq. yds. are in contemplation during the present year. It cannot be supposed that a nation so keen at weighing up the possibilities of a business proposition would, after fourteen years' experience, continue to lay these roads on such an extensive scale were they not entirely satisfied as to their efficiency and economy. As might have been expected, there were partial failures, particularly in America, in the early days, but only in this way is progress attained - and the progress has, indeed, been great, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom - and even to-day, greatly as methods have improved, no sane person would venture to say that concrete road practice has reached finality.
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.
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