. Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada. the cities andthe counties may co-operate to improve main roads in suburbanareas. Forty per cent of the cost of construction of such roads isprovided by the province, the other sixty per cent being contributedin equal portions by the city and the county; for maintenance, theprovince gives twenty per cent and the city and county each fortyper cent. This arrangement, under which th*^ city contributes to-wards the cost of construction and maintenance of suburban roadsin county areas, is a just one, since the gre
. Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada. the cities andthe counties may co-operate to improve main roads in suburbanareas. Forty per cent of the cost of construction of such roads isprovided by the province, the other sixty per cent being contributedin equal portions by the city and the county; for maintenance, theprovince gives twenty per cent and the city and county each fortyper cent. This arrangement, under which th*^ city contributes to-wards the cost of construction and maintenance of suburban roadsin county areas, is a just one, since the greater part of the trafficpassing over such roads is for the benefit of the city; moreover, theaverage rural municipality cannot afford the preliminary cost ofbuilding up a main road system. In Ontario, however, the improve-ment of highways has to be confined to the principal lines of communi-cation.* As in all the other provinces, there are so many roads inOntario that only a selected few can be improved. Roads are di- * Annual Report on Highway Improtement, Ontario, 1915. Fig. 27. The points to be noted on this chart are: First, the heavy accumulation of traffic concentrated on the main side-road near to the market centre, and second, the construction of 21 % of the roads serves 82% of the traffic.—(Annual Report on Highway Improvement, Ontario, 1915). See page 81. Fig. 28
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