. Water & sewage works . His report is lacking in some July 1913 $13, per mile or $ per mileper foot of width. Tarvia X macadam road 26 feet widecost $26, per mile or $1, permile per foot of width. Concrete roads 16 feet wide cost about$9,600 per mile or $ to $ permile per foot of width. A brick road 28 feet wide costs $26, per mile or $ per mile per footof width. Xo figures of cost of maintenance areavailable. Three of the macadam roads,finished in 1908, 1909 and 1910, each 14feet wide are now being resurfaced at anaverage cost of about $215 pe
. Water & sewage works . His report is lacking in some July 1913 $13, per mile or $ per mileper foot of width. Tarvia X macadam road 26 feet widecost $26, per mile or $1, permile per foot of width. Concrete roads 16 feet wide cost about$9,600 per mile or $ to $ permile per foot of width. A brick road 28 feet wide costs $26, per mile or $ per mile per footof width. Xo figures of cost of maintenance areavailable. Three of the macadam roads,finished in 1908, 1909 and 1910, each 14feet wide are now being resurfaced at anaverage cost of about $215 per mile perfoot of width. If we estimate the averagelife of these pavements at 3% years, themaintenance cost is practically $6 permile per foot of width per year, or $84per mile per year for the 14-foot roads Inaddition to any expenditures that mayhave been made in maintaining theseroads during their life-time. As nearlyas can be computed from the figures inthe Andrews report, the average cost of 62 MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING. BRICK ROAD with cement filler near Conneaut, 0. Note perfect surface. maintaining the 40 miles of improvedroad included in it is about ?130 a milea year; or practically double the costper mile per toot of width per year of theresurfacing done on the three roads, theaverage width of macadam roads beingabout 11 feet. The brick road has had no repairs ex-cept those made by the street railway,replacing bricks laid with asphalt fillerbetween the rails, when the vibration ofthe tracks under car traffic raised thebricks from their bed. On one of the macadam roads resur-faced there is a stretch of G per which has been resurfaced with tartreatment twice in nine months. The accompanying photographs showthree of the roads included in the An-drews report. The first photograph, tak-en May 5, 1913, is of Conneaut macadamroad No. 1, one mile south of the citylimits. This improvement, miles longand 14 feet wide was constructed of mac-adam in 1907-1908 at a cost
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