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Remarks On The Present System Of Road Making by John Loudon McAdam presents a comprehensive program for reforming Britain's highways. The work collects preface, introduction, and a detailed examination of roads and the mode of making roads, together with proposals for governance and funding of road maintenance. McAdam argues that current turnpike trusts are inefficient and often waste public funds, calling for central oversight, a professional executive (a General Surveyor) to supervise sub-surveyors, and ultimately a General Road Act. The central claim is that roads should be built on scientific principles: using broken angular stone of controlled size laid on a dry, impervious foundation, with proper drainage. The text includes practical descriptions of the Bristol district's improvements, including cost data and labour practices, and discusses testimonies given to Parliament by engineers such as Telford and the Board of Agriculture. The volume also features the Select Committee reports (1819-1823) detailing the system's benefits and recommending consolidation of road trusts, especially around London, as a national model.
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