MOTOR-CARS AND ROADS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16162, 16 March 1918, Page 11

MOTOR-CARS AND ROADS.

N . T0 the editor op "the pbkss." 'gir Tliis evergreen question is ,Rga,in cropping up. No doubt the users of tbc ■ roads should contribute j ' directly to ibeir upkeep, and a :>tiff tvre-tax hits the man hardest who uses the roads most, and is therefore the ■ fairest. But one of the important aspects is proper road construction. Even with shingle intelligently used an excellent* road, can be maintained small cost. The gross ignorance and incapacity of many of the County officers is largely responsible for the present state of affairs. No road could ever be decently made *»v: t.h • the boulders that are often used; mending consists too often in telling a■. diayman to fill up holes—and fce takes whatever comes first in the pit or river-bed, with fearful results. Tcke the City-Aylesbury-Charing Cross-Hororata roaa. From the ;ity to past "West Melton a "road" that is a disgrace to the local bodies responsible, from there on to Hororata ap excellent road; and taking into account the difference in width of tho - two portions, the latter surface probably carries verv nearly the same motor traffic as the former. More intelligence in the engineers' departments is really what is required; the office boy who automatically gravitates into county engineer is the main cause of our bad roads.— Yours, etc., MOTORIST.