Southern good roads . on conditions lieforeundertaking detinite expenditures for state-aid was first undertaken in , and the lawprovided that the state could advise with local author-ities as to the construction of their roads and bridges,and the work of the ^Maryland highway departmentdemonstrated that there was much to be gained l>y ad-visory supervision on the part of the state. Such work-has been done by a number of states only to a greaterdegree, notaljly. in Illinois. Wisconsin and Iowa. Thew iik in these states at first was advisory onl,y. thatis. tile local auth
Southern good roads . on conditions lieforeundertaking detinite expenditures for state-aid was first undertaken in , and the lawprovided that the state could advise with local author-ities as to the construction of their roads and bridges,and the work of the ^Maryland highway departmentdemonstrated that there was much to be gained l>y ad-visory supervision on the part of the state. Such work-has been done by a number of states only to a greaterdegree, notaljly. in Illinois. Wisconsin and Iowa. Thew iik in these states at first was advisory onl,y. thatis. tile local authorities co-operated with the state de-partments voluntarily, the knv not recpiiring that theyshould necessarily follow the advice given by the the remarkal)le success of tliis work, the wide-spread influence it exerted aftei- a few years of activi-ty, the hearty co-operation on the part of many localoiHcials, and compulsory co-operation through puldico]-)inion on the part of others, demonstrated conclusive-. A very bad road near Petersburg, Va., before improvement. ly the wisdom and the need for definite control by astate liigliwaj department over the activities of localroad officials. Today advisory control is exercised by state depart-ments in twentj-three states and definite control al-ready exists in three. Perhaps the greatest significance attaches to the fadthat there are fifteen states in which local highway en-gineers are provided for by statute. This is in consid-erable contrast to the oiDinion that road work could bedone by anybody and did not require any skilled su-pervision. But the fact that in no more than a thirdof the states are local engineers required by statutesoows that the appreciation of skilled control has notspread to the extent that it should. The work that hasbeen accomplished by the highway engineer in ten years in this country has demionstrated be-yond further argument the need for such control. The reason for a policy of state con
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