Road Legislation for the American State (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Road Legislation for the American State

The principal reason for this comparative neglect of the common roads in nearly all countries is, of course, to be found in the astonishing growth of the railway systems, and, since the invention of the steamboat, of commerce by water. These have ren dered unnecessary long roads such as the ancient Aztecs and Romans found it wise to build for com mercial and military purposes. Then, too, though the railroads have not really lessened the importance of the wagon road, they seem to have done so and they certainly have overshadowed it in political import ance, so that legislators, naturally, have passed it by.

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