En Samling Afhandlinger Om Veje 1876-1881

OUR ROADWAYS. 7 passing over it. This system was found to answer admirably on the great country roads, and on some was carried out with such regularity, that the driver of a London mail coach was wont to take a pride in running one wheel of his coach accurately on the edge of the broken stones freshly laid along the road. Such regular driving was, however, utterly unattain- able in the streets of a large city, and of late years steam rollers have been employed to flatten down the fresh metal of the roadways. This improvement has doubtless removed one serious drawback to Mac- adam, namely, the injury to the feet of horses and the greatly increased labour of traction on the fresh surface, but apart from these objections others have forced themselves on public attention. Macadam has been found to be the most costly of all roadways where heavy traffic exists. It possesses perhaps in the highest degree the merit of safety, but it is so wanting in durability as to need constant repair, the wear entailing the necessity of removing the worn- out material, and hence arises an expense for sweep- ing, scraping, and slopping, which in the metropolis lias been for the last few years steadily on the in- crease, and lias become a cause of serious alarm to the ratepayers; in short, “ Macadam,” which, for suburban roads with light traffic possesses many advantages, has under the continuous and heavy traffic of large cities been now proved to be most expensive to maintain, owing to the constant need of