Highways and Highway TransportationChatburn, George R.
History
Highways and Highway Transportation
Chatburn, George R.
Roads; Transportation
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FOOTNOTES
[167] See “The Motor Bus Field as a Market for Trucks,” _Automotive
Industries_, September 29, 1921.
[168] One method of estimating cost of automobile riding, for a
machine costing originally $1000, which having a life of 30,000 miles
is then worth for scrap $100, may be given thus:
Original cost expressed in cents per mile
(1000-100)100
------------- 3.0
30,000
Cost of repairs, estimated, 0.5
Gasoline and oil 2.5
Tires 1.5
Garage }
Interest }
Taxes } 1.5
Insurance }
License }
---
9.0
The cost is about 9 cents per car mile. If an average of two
passengers ride that is 4¹⁄₂ cents per passenger mile. The above is
merely an illustration and cannot be applied generally.
[169] See Bulletin 770, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of
Markets, “Motor Transportation for Rural Districts,” Also Bulletin
931.
[170] “A Jitney Guide to the Santa Fé Trail,” _Saturday Evening
Post_, June 10, 1922.
[171] The statute of Winchester enacted during the reign of Edward I,
of England, provided “that highways leading from one market town to
another shall be enlarged, where woods, hedges or dykes be, so that
there be neither dyke, tree nor bush, whereby a man may lurk to do
hurt, within two hundred foot on the one side and two hundred foot on
the other side of the way.”
[172] Reprinted by permission from _The Saturday Evening Post_,
Copyright 1922, by the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
CHAPTER VIII
PLANNING HIGHWAY SYSTEMS: SELECTION OF ROAD TYPES
A road is a strip of land set apart or appropriated for travel, public
or private. When a road has been dedicated to the public or has been
used so long that the public has a legal right of easement therein, it
becomes a highway.[173]
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