IDEALISM IN OUR HIGHWAYS

After forty years of experience in developing highways by the federal government, states and local governments, the nation finds its highway program grossly inadequate on many segments. In spite of larger investment of public funds, the nation still lacks the benefits obtainable from a higher level of transportation. The all-time demand for highway engineering services is pushing engineering departments maximum effort in plan and program development. They are preparing designs for modern, free-flowing arteries of travel. Departments are supplementing their own private engineering firms. Modern mechanical devices speed up the engineering process, adding to their means of comparative evaluation of the problems of location and design.