Ulaştırma Kraliyet Komisyonu'nun (Royal Commission on Transport) Birleşik Krallık'ın trafik ve karayolu ağına ilişkin raporu.

- 5 - We sincerely trust that those who are responsible for highway improvements will keep constantly before them the need for preserving and adding to the beauty of a countryside which, unfortunately, has already in too many places suffered from the results of commercialism. (Paragraphs 180,181.) Road Improvements. (xxvii) There is immense scope for the improvement of exist- ing highways. Some- possibly many - need complete reconstruction on new foundations capable of bearing the weight of modern traffic. (xxix) We attach the greatest importance from the point of view of safety on the highway to the provision of footpaths, and we urge that the surface of these paths should be kept in as good a condition as that of the carriageway. By-pass Roads. (xxx) Although we would not approve of the construction of a large number of new arterial roads, we regard the provision of by-pass roads in a very different light. There is, perhaps, a tendency to overlook the beneficial effects produced by the widespread construction of by-pass roads designed for the purpose of diverting traffic from the narrow streets of ancient towns and villages. Besides relieving conges- tion and increasing the safety of roads, it must be remembered that but for these new highways it would in many instances, have ./.