Remarks on the Present System of Road Making

Remarks on the Present System of Road Making - With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the Evidence

The present very defective state of the Turnpike Roads and Highways in the United Kingdom, and the continual and apparently unlimited increase of the Toll Duties, are the considerations, which have given rise to the publication of the following remarks. Of the value of the information contained in them, the intelligent reader will be the most competent judge; the author can only venture to assure him, that the few facts brought forward in the course of the work have been most carefully authenticated; that the opinions advanced are the result of much thought, and patient investigation; that whatever may appear theoretical, has, for the most part, been already reduced to practice; and that where practice has been wanting, a long experience of the evils arising from the present system, and 6not the mere love of innovation, has been the motive for the suggestion of the remedies proposed. These, however, the author gladly submits to the good sense and candour of the public; only requesting, in the words of a celebrated writer, that whoever favors him with a perusal, will not judge by a few hours reading of the labours of nearly thirty years. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 65022
Author: McAdam, John Loudon
Release Date: Apr 7, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English