National Road Building through State – Federal Cooperation

A ;?:••>>•..: ,-ivon by The a. fl.MftcSonald, Connipsioner FVrli* ao'uia, at the Twenty-fifth Annual Maeti.\:tho Af.ierlean Aoreciatien of State Highway C:'-'L.KivuatonA, Vir.-rinia -Catcher 10, 193?The e.o-jioll in/; active that brought the States together in 1914 to for;-: thin Association was to secure recognition of the highway problem nn-l acceptance of financial ronponaibility by the Koderai Oovornaont, Tho plan designed to aooottpJ iah these ob ject iveu h;t.s «i?i>-:>t been followed for other Joint Stato-Fodoral •mdwrt«5:isw;s.imt tho ionioral Highway Act of July, 1916 pioneered t.ho way, ;:e won»o timo could haw boon found to organize on a :-.ition v.idc oo,tlo a now and euartloaa proj«et, for in le«8 than ;•.y...ar thv i tod Status boennu an active participant in tho world wnr.Thu un.rr,:i«.u;and mntorial roaourcoo of the country wore .•:ioli,ili:»,od to meet tho omorijoncy.Tho cxletinvT highways, without reasonably uduqunw anintonanco • hnd to servo.Their deteriora tion undur thv rnpidly multiplying notorized hifldway transport waa appalling.The lnck of improved highways whoro needed aorioutsly hnndinrippod operation* and caused extravagant expense.Tho end o:' the war brought the rati lent ion that in four abort year a «otorized hi;;hwny trnnoport hod grown to autorial disnonsione, doisandlr.*;& concept of hi^iway building on a scolo never hoforo, c:or,tc::;j:i*it«d.As n result of oxtondod bearinga and con sideration, the Caress, in fovembor, 1931, rewrote tho Act of