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Ithms been3. Adjusted, at intervals, to meet metropolitan
traffic gluts, transcontinental movement, and
increased horsepower, but never completely over-
hauled or planned to satisfy needs ten years
the Resibt hat a 4. permal ahead. parenthesis; thirty-five proble years ago
Personal
this month, nth N of War initiated a
transcontinental truck convoy to prove the gas
engine had displaced the mule even on our
relatively primitive roads. wen't along as
an observer. All-weather roads in the United
States then totaled 300,000 miles. Autos and
trucks numbered 7,600,000. The truck convoy
left Washington July 7 and arrived in San Francisco
September 5 -- 60 days and 6 thousand breakdowns
later. Today all-weather mileage is approximately
But
1,800,000; autos It's obvious and trucks the the number
more than
56,000,000.
The increase in mileage has lagged
behind the increase in vehicles. The road
system, moreover, is fundamentally the same,
either haphazard or completely arbitrary in its
origin; designed for local movement in an age of
trans-continental travel.
what an The penalties of this obsolete net et/are are mani fold. The principal
are:
1. An annual death toll comparable to the casualties
of a bloody war -- beyond calculation in dollar
terms. It approaches 40 thousand killed and
exceeds 1.3 million injured annually.
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
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