Broadening the Highway Program

To an audience composed of those engaged in the actuality of highway improvement including all of its phases, it is not necessary to call attention to the fact that the broadening of our national highway program is not a probability of the future but is a policy which has already attained definition and considerable stature.Since July 1933. in the Public 7/orks highway programs more than 11,000 individual projects have been placed under way.That 60 percent of these projects are off the federal aid highway systems of the States as they existed at the start of the program, roughly measures the velocity attained in broadening the program through liberalizing the Federal highway ijolicies.These projects off the Federal aid highway system provide for its extension at both its extremes, -on the one hand the feeder roads of the rural districts and on the other the principal thoroughfares of cities and towns.The addition of these two classes of roads and streets to the Federally supported highway program, is not the only element of this broadened highway policy structure.She elimination of grade crossings without railroad participation in the financing, landscaping and planting of roadsides, and the "building of footpaths, are other, but not all, of the worthy additions to the rapidly progressing highway policies.