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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.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book proposes a state-level highway policy centered around building and maintaining a system of hard-surfaced roads connecting county seats and commercial towns in North Carolina. Launched in 1915, the stateās road-building program initially involved local governments and did little more than offer advice to counties and townships. A 1917 law granted the State Highway Commission more authority, allowing it to work with counties in laying out a statewide system of highways. The 1919 law established a new State Highway Commission, designating a state highway engineer, and appropriated funds for road maintenance. The author argues that none of these measures provided a sufficient plan for road building on a statewide basis and calls for a comprehensive plan that would ensure adequate maintenance of all roads in the state system. The author delves into road-building methods and maintenance strategies used in other states and examines funding sources such as taxes and bonds. The book concludes by arguing that North Carolina could afford to build and maintain a state highway system, emphasizing that such a system would accelerate economic growth and improve the lives of its citizens. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781332871292_0
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