AMERICA’S HIGHWAYS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 January 1931, Page 8

AMERICA’S HIGHWAYS

COMPARISON WITH DOMINION

MORE ELABORATE SYSTEM

“There seems to be no doubt that road-making and similar work is a great industry iff the United States." said Mr. A. Tyndall. engineer to tiie New Zealand Main Highways Board, on his return to Wellington from America on Mondav.

"In an endeavour to assist unemployment. which is rife throughout America, one thousand million dollars was spent in IStJU, in the construction aiid iliaintfenalice of roads.” he said. "This year, with the additional money which is being found by the Federal and State Gbverhmejit.s, and i.vitich will be spent oil the highways, the figure ivill eclipse the 1929 amount, by several hundred million dollars.” “Shortly before I left, thousands ol men were put on the work of building, v idening and forming new deviations on the roads in the Western States,” he said.

Making a comparison of the roads ol New Zealand and America. Mr. Tyndall said that the class of work done here compared very favourably with that in the United States, though the American highways were built on a liiore elaborate system than ours.

After the International Roads Congress at Washington, which was the main objective of liis tour, Mr. Tyndall was invited, along with some other visitors, to make a tour of the United .States roads by the Highways Education Board. This lasted 17 days, and some thousands of miles of roads ye re traversed on the trip.