Abstract

The Problem of the Road

Staggering figures have been submitted to U.S. President Herbert Hoover by the representatives of organizations interested in highway construction as their program for 1930. The several States for new roads and the bettering of existing ones, while the same amount is cited as the probable expenditure for country roads and city streets, it is stated, will expend no less than $1,000,000,000. Undoubtedly this will help to meet any unemployment problems if a serious one should arise during the coming year. It has, moreover, the advantage of being in considerable part an expenditure for permanent improvements urgently needed for the movement of goods and crops, quite aside from the question of pleasure traffic, as is evident by the demand of the agricultural leaders who on November 25, met U.S. President and asked for more federal aid for farm roads.