Download or read book Twentieth Biennial Report of the State Highway and Public Works Commission of North Carolina, 1953-1954 (Classic Reprint) written by North Carolina State Highway Commission and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twentieth Biennial Report of the State Highway and Public Works Commission of North Carolina, 1953-1954 The Rural Primary Highway System, on January 1, 1954, was composed of miles, more than 98% of which had been hard surfaced, being originally designed to handle the major flow of rural and interurban traffic. This System, though com prising less than 16% of our total road and street mileage, carries more than half of the combined rural and urban traffic in the entire State. The Rural Secondary, or County Road System was composed Of 54, 970 miles of roads; 20, 552 miles Of which were hard sur faced, and 34, 418 miles Of lower type, but generally stabilized and maintained for all weather service. The, Municipal Primary and Secondary Systems are composed of miles of streets Of all types and widths, depending upon the amount and nature Of the traffic each carries, and other local factors Of every conceivable kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.