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Progress, Volume VI, Issue 4, 1 February 1911, Page 540

Writing approximately, there are 147,500 miles of highways in England and Wales, of which 118,000 may be regarded as district roads. There are 29,500 miles of main roads, 23,500 being in the rural districts and the remainder in urban districts. Of these latter a considerable stretch have been treated with preparations to ameliorate the dust nuisance; Mr. R. Brown, the. surveyor to the Southall District Council, estimates that probably one-third of the total mileage has already been dealt with. This leaves about 4,000 yet to be reconstructed at a cost of over three-quarters of a million sterling.