Modernising the Roads.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 1, 2 November 1908, Page 25

Modernising the Roads.

On October 13 a cable message described the important congress opened that daj at Paris, a congress attended by 29 representatives of different governments, as cpnvened for the purpose of studying the best means of adapting 1 roads to the conditions of modern traffic. It is clear that the dust nuisance is forcing the public to think of something drastic. That the dust is unhealthy as well as a nuisance i> undoubted, for the road traffic is largely a horse traffic. Abolish the horse, substitute the motor, then the dust will be at all events innocuous, and the windows of all and sundry will be able to be kept open. As to the Detrol smell, it is held in some quarters to be a blessing in disguise — an unpleasaut disguise certainly, but a powerful one nevertheless.