Colonel C. H. Brassey said that on the road engineer rested grave responsibility of transforming our immemorial road system as rapidly and cheaply as possible to meet the demands of modern transport.
With a free hand to divert unemployment doles into this channel, the road engineer could do much to rescue the workless from demoralization and to relieve the coming generation of an incalculable expenditure upon the improvement of obsolete thoroughfares.
In the light of the lesson learnt during this wave of unemployment, it behaved all local authorities to ce-operate with their neighbours in preparing well-thought-out road projects for embodiment in town-planning schemes, and for execution when time served best.
Schemes typical of many that would be forced upon the country by the needs of industry were:
'A new Liverpool-Manchester road A new Birmingham-Wolverhampton road; and New roads connecting the deeply-cleft mining valleys of Glamorgans hire.
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