Critical Aspects of the Current Highway Program

II 'The mounting highway traffic, the deficiencies of highway and Street CAPACITIES, and the higher cost levels have forced upward the ;T«|per-ALL financial support for highway construction and maintenance.Tlie increased State and LOCAL FUNDS HAVE reduced the Federal participa tion RELATIVELY.FOR THE calendar YEAR 1949 FEDERAL funds carried 14 per cent of THE TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR ALL HIGHWAY purposes.