Highway Manual of the State of New York; A Complete Compilation of All the Laws Relating to Highways, with Annotations and Forms (Paperback)

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.1904 Excerpt: ... GOOD ROADS. By Joseph W. Hunter, State Highway Commissioner Of Pennsylvania. "There is one road to Peace, and that is truth, which follow ye."--Shelly. It is not my desire nor do T intend to write any essay on Good Roads but to state in a brief way some of the essential and salient points that are necessary to be observed in the construction of Good Roads, and which may have been stated in various forms by others. Sir Henry Parnell says: "The art of road-making must essentially depend for its success on its being exercised in conformity with certain general principles; and their justness should be rendered so clear and self-evident as not to admit of any controversy." Rapidity, safety and economy of carriage are the objects of roads. They should therefore be so located and constructed as to enable burdens of goods and passengers to be transported from one place to another in the least possible time with the least possible labor, and with the least possible expense. To attain these important ends, a road should fulfill certain conditions which the nature of the country over which it passes, and other circumstances, may render impossible to unite or reconcile in one combination; but to the union of which we should endeavor to approximate as nearly as possible in forming an actual road upon the models of this ideally perfect one. Every road, other things being equal, should be perfectly straight, so that its length, and therefore the time and labor expended in traveling upon it should be the least possible. An excess of length adds to cost of construction, cost of repairs, and time and labor in traveling over it. Every road should be as level as possible, and as a road can in few cases be at the same time straight and level, these two requirements will often c...