| 400 miles of granite paved streets at £96 per mile | 38,400 | 0 | 0 |
| 1350 macadamized ditto, at £44 per mile | 59,400 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 wood ditto, at £88 per mile | 440 | 0 | 0 |
| 98,240 | 0 | 0 |
This, then (about £100,000), is the original cost of the roads of the metropolis.
The cost of repairs, &c., annually, is shown by the amount of the paving rate, which may be taken as an average.
| £ | s. | d. | |
| 400 miles of granite, at 20s. per mile | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| 1350 macadamized ditto, at £13 4s. per mile | 17,820 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 wood[13] ditto, at 20s. per mile | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 18,225 | 0 | 0 |
According to a “General Survey of the Metropolitan Highways,” by Mr. Thomas Hughes, the principal roads leading out of London are:—
1. The Cambridge Road, from Shoreditch through Kingsland.
2. The Epping and Chelmsford Roads, from Whitechapel, through Bow and Stratford.
3. The Barking Road, along the Commercial Road past Limehouse.
4. The Dover Road, from the Elephant and Castle, across Blackheath.
5. The Brighton Roads, (a) through Croydon, (b) through Sutton.