| Original cost expressed in cents per mile(1000-100)10030,000 | 3.0 | ||
| Cost of repairs, estimated, | 0.5 | ||
| Gasoline and oil | 2.5 | ||
| Tires | 1.5 | ||
| Garage | - | 1.5 | |
| Interest | |||
| Taxes | |||
| Insurance | |||
| License | |||
| 9.0 | |||
The cost is about 9 cents per car mile. If an average of two passengers ride that is 41⁄2 cents per passenger mile. The above is merely an illustration and cannot be applied generally.
[169] See Bulletin 770, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Markets, “Motor Transportation for Rural Districts,” Also Bulletin 931.
[170] “A Jitney Guide to the Santa Fé Trail,” Saturday Evening Post, June 10, 1922.
[171] The statute of Winchester enacted during the reign of Edward I, of England, provided “that highways leading from one market town to another shall be enlarged, where woods, hedges or dykes be, so that there be neither dyke, tree nor bush, whereby a man may lurk to do hurt, within two hundred foot on the one side and two hundred foot on the other side of the way.”
[172] Reprinted by permission from The Saturday Evening Post, Copyright 1922, by the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
CHAPTER VIII
PLANNING HIGHWAY SYSTEMS: SELECTION OF ROAD TYPES
A road is a strip of land set apart or appropriated for travel, public or private. When a road has been dedicated to the public or has been used so long that the public has a legal right of easement therein, it becomes a highway.[173]
The object of a road is to provide a way for transportation. It goes without saying, therefore, that its situation should be such that it can perform this function most efficiently, and a system of highways should perform the same function for the public in the same manner. Efficiency here includes the ideas of economy and satisfaction combined.
In order to make a layout of a system of highways they should first be classified as to use, for the proper treatment will depend upon the use to which the roads are to be put. Anyone attempting a layout will make his own classification suitable to the inherent conditions pertaining to the district covered. The classification of Mr. T. H. MacDonald, Director of the Bureau of Public Roads, U. S. Department of Agriculture, made for another purpose may be adopted:[174]