ENGLAND'S ROADS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 22

ENGLAND'S ROADS

Speaking at a ladies'' banquet given by the Worshipful Company of Paviors in London recently the Master, Mr. William Stewart, stated that they had endeavoured to raise sufficient funds to endow a Chair at the University of London for the advancement of road engineering. At present they had about half the requisite funds, and they hoped, with assistance from a certaiu quarter, shortly to bo able to complete their project.

Mr. Prank Hewitt, surveyor to the Burnley Royal Council, England, told Buinley Eotarians that more than twofifths of the highways still required reconstruction, widening or diversion, work which would cost £70,000,000. The greatest advance iii British roadmaking had yet to come. Arterial road building on a large scale must vigorously continue. Special trunk roads, devoted exclusively to motors, were becoming a prime necessity. They would greatly facilitate transport, and might revolutionise heavy haulage. The economic possibilities of heavy transport by roads were almost entirely unexplored. Co-operation between, vehicle designer and road engineer would save considerable damage to both road and vehicle, and contribute to economical working all round, with consequent benefit, to the whole community.