The Development of a State Policy in Road Building in North Carolina (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

North Carolina Good Roads Association

9780656889686: The Development of a State Policy in Road Building in North Carolina (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0656889683 ISBN 13: 9780656889686

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Explore NC’s fight to build a statewide highway system and the ideas that shaped early road policy.

This concise overview presents the North Carolina Good Roads Association’s aims, the drive for a state policy, and how early laws set the stage for modern highway planning. It conveys a snapshot of how citizens, business leaders, and lawmakers envisioned financing, building, and maintaining roads to support the state’s growth.

This edition traces the push from 1915 through 1919, showing why local control gave way to a statewide approach. It highlights the association’s critique of existing laws and their recommended improvements, including how funds are raised, allocated, and used for maintenance. The material emphasizes the need for a coherent policy and a reliable funding plan to sustain hard-surfaced highways for a decade or more.

The organization’s broad goals for financing, building, and maintaining highways.
A timeline of North Carolina’s early highway laws and what they allowed or failed to achieve.
Key ideas for a stronger state role in planning and constructing a statewide system.
Hints at who supported and who competed in shaping policy and funding.

Ideal for readers of transportation history, policy development, and North Carolina history, especially those curious about how early 20th‑century road systems were imagined and pitched.

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