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Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada (1917)

Canada. Commission of Conservation, Adams, Thomas, 1871-1940 · Ottawa, [s.n.] · leaf 132

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e, since the greater part of the trafficpassing over such roads is for the benefit of the city; moreover, theaverage rural municipality cannot afford the preliminary cost ofbuilding up a main road system. In Ontario, however, the improve-ment of highways has to be confined to the principal lines of… … The points to be noted on this chart are: First, the heavy accumulation of traffic concentrated on the main side-road near to the market centre, and second, the construction of 21 % of the roads serves 82% of the traffic.—(Annual Report on Highway Improvement, Ontario, 1915). See page 81. Fig. 28

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