[PRCo] Re: PTM

[John Swindler]

As of the spring of 1995, there were still more then 500 miles of state 
highways that were not paved.  Not county/local, but state highways.

This was a surprise to the then incoming Secretary of Transportation.

Mostly tended to be on state property in northcentral Pennsylvania.

John S.



>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: PTM
>Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 19:47:22 -0400
>
>Actually most city streets were paved by 1920.  The  country roads were not
>paved ... dusty in summer and axle deep in mud in the spring.
>
>Ed recommended to me (and I have it but haven't read it yet) a book on
>Dwight Eisenhower's trip coast to coast with a military carivan of trucks
>around 1919 ... took months because very little was paved.  By 1930, half
>the roads in Pennsylvania were paved and 90 percent of those maintained or
>owned by the state were concrete or asphalt.  It all happened in about 10
>years, along with a 200 percent increase in registered motor vehicles.
>
>Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>


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