Building a System of National Roads through Federal Aid

A traveler leaving J?ew York City on July first would reach a point in China, about two hundred and fifty miles northeast of Peking, on August fifth, thirty-five days later, if he journeyed westward twenty-five miles per hour for ten hours each day in the latitude of New York.If the Federal Aid road projects completed during the twelve months preceding July last were placed end to end along his route -and land and sea were equally satisfactory foundations for the roadbed -the traveler would have a new road way of the various standard types for the whole distance, 8,620 miles.Assuming that the 15,349 miles of projects actually under construction on June 30, 1924, lay ahead of him to the westward, as he continued on his way he would duplicate the experiences which we all have had in detouring around construction gangs and neT7 work.Even his interest in the highly specialized equipment and the new processes used in the work of road building could hardly counterbalance his accumulated weariness.If he persisted • in his desire to see all of these projects under construction, he must proceed from his first stopping place northeast of Peking across all of China, Turkestan, the Caspian and Black seas, southern Europe including Spain and Portugal," across "the Atlantic": Ocean back to Hew York City, again traverse the whole of the