Good roads . Rolling the First Course. has the hardened section been eighteen feet or more in width,and in these cases by reason of the amount of travel. Theremaining thirty pieces contracted for have a width of fifteenfeet. So important has it seemed to the Commissioners to gainlength of way, that in certain thinly settled portions of theCommonwealth they are considering the advisability of build-ing single track roads having a width of nine feet, withfrequent places of double width way which may serve aspassing points for carriages. Carefully prepared ways of thisnarrow kind are found in som
Good roads . Rolling the First Course. has the hardened section been eighteen feet or more in width,and in these cases by reason of the amount of travel. Theremaining thirty pieces contracted for have a width of fifteenfeet. So important has it seemed to the Commissioners to gainlength of way, that in certain thinly settled portions of theCommonwealth they are considering the advisability of build-ing single track roads having a width of nine feet, withfrequent places of double width way which may serve aspassing points for carriages. Carefully prepared ways of thisnarrow kind are found in some of the countries of Europe,where the most attention has been paid to road may also be noted that in south-eastern Massachusetts suchnarrow ways, with turn-outs arranged so that drivers mayalways have access to one after sighting each other, have beenin use since the settlement of the country. The only seriousobjections brought against these ways is that driving in^ thenight-time is apt to be
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