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a major portion of highway users' funds be directed toward the 

 needs of the recreation motorist? 



What about the freeway in the city? Can it be made useful, 

 safe, and beautiful? 



How can we give meaningful recognition to those States, those 

 communities, those engineers, architects, and landscape architects 

 who see to it that the roads, parkways, and highways they design 

 become an integral part of "a more beautiful America"? 



Mr. HARTZOG. The National Park Service of the Department 

 of the Interior believes that the national parkway concepts and 

 principles developed over the past 30 years at the Blue Ridge, Natchez 

 Trace, Foothills, George Washington Memorial, and Colonial Park- 

 ways offer great promise to our national road program. 



In all of these there was a valuable, specialized Bureau of Public 

 Roads' contribution of engineering skill and teamwork with the 

 landscape architects and architects of the National Park Service. 

 This teamwork continues on current programs of park and parkway 

 roads resulting in handsome routes for leisurely travel. They are 

 located to best fit the natural topography, taking advantage 

 of scenic, historic, and recreation objectives along the way and 

 encouraging a ride-a-while, stop-a-while experience. 



The same principles could provide good scenic qualities and rec- 

 reational opportunities free from roadside clutter if extended and 

 applied to new national or State parkways or to preselected sections 

 of existing State roads or highways. 



We applaud the State of California's pioneer work in developing 

 its recently authorized Scenic Highway System. Our panel chair- 

 man, Senator Fred Farr, was most instrumental in this program. 



As our part in achieving these purposes, we plan to : 



1. Continue National Park Service park road and parkway pro- 

 grams anually under Federal-aid Highway Act authorizations. 



2. Expand the park road program to provide access to new na- 

 tional park system areas as they are authorized by the Congress. 

 The President's Message on Natural Beauty proposed several for 

 establishment. 



3. Expand national parkway studies to provide greater national 

 representation. For example, joint studies by the National Park 

 Service and the Bureau of Public Roads have recently been com- 

 pleted on two proposed national parkways. They are the Allegheny 

 Parkway, 632 miles long, connecting Harpers Ferry and Cumberland 



