Notes Upon Road Construction And Maintenance

Author : Colin H. Campbell
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ISBN 13 : 9781331940890
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Better Roads written by Colin H. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Better Roads: Principles of Road Construction and Maintenance There is no other work which a municipal council is called upon to undertake, or upon which public funds are expended, that is of more importance or requires more serious and considerate attention than the building and maintaining of the public highways. The benefits, material and social, accruing from a well constructed and properly maintained system of roads, in keeping with the means and requirements of a community are so obvious and distinct, that the best efforts of not only the authorities, themselves, but of the ratepayers in general, should be exerted towards instituting comprehensive plans for carrying on their roadwork, so that the best results may be obtained at a minimum outlay, and the ensuing benefits received without unnecessary delay. It would be well for the different municipal authorities to undertake a reasonable amount of improvement work on their roads at one time with the intention of completing the same within a certain period, say one, two, three or even more years. A general plan could be outlined, embracing the construction or improvement of a certain mileage of roads in a given period. Of course, all the details could not be worked out from the firsts as certain changes might have to be made from time to time to meet unforeseen conditions which might arise during the progress of the work, but the authorities would have before them a definite proposition which would enable them to proceed in a practical, businesslike manner and thus avoid a great deal of unnecessary delay, costly expenditures for the repairs and rebuilding of partly, and very often poorly, constructed pieces of work, indiscriminately started here and there throughout a district. Main Trunk Roads. There are in every municipality certain roads which owing to their peculiar location in the district are more travelled than others. They may be termed the main roads. 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.