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way in each State constructed to scenic standards or reconstructed to 

 scenic standards, then the citizens will clamor for more. I think 

 unless we do this in each State, the scenic highway concept is going 

 to be a long time coming. 



WILLIAM GARNETT. Relative to the method of analyzing the 

 need for highways, I think we have not yet made comment on 

 where we stop building highways. I challenge the methods that are 

 now used in determining this, the quality of analyses being used. 

 I think we no longer should use only a traffic count to say we need 

 a better freeway or a better secondary road, and I am particularly 

 concerned about the secondary roads that should be scenic highways. 

 I feel that we need more than the traffic count. We need to know 

 why is the traffic going there, and take that into very careful con- 

 sideration. , In California there are many traffic count areas destroy- 

 ing scenic highways and I am sure that a high percentage of the 

 traffic on that highway is there because of the scenic value. So I 

 think I would recommend that some careful ecological studies 

 be incorporated with some possible methods of surveying the 

 purpose of that traffic. 



Mrs. NATHANIEL A. O WINGS. I believe it isn't a question of 

 whether we have a freeway up the north coast of California. It is 

 a question of whether the freeway is allowed to bypass the parks. We 

 are not questioning freeways versus two-lane roads. On the west 

 coast the freeway has a dual contradictory role. One of its roles 

 is to take people to the redwood parks, our superb natural beauty 

 area; whereas on the other hand it intrudes into these public parks, 

 these redwood groves, and it disturbs, scars, and destroys the very 

 experience that the traveler comes to enjoy. 



Can the Bureau of Public Roads develop rigid regulatory measures 

 to guard against the using of Federal funds on routes that become 

 destructive in their nature when they pass through parks and our 

 most prized natural beauty areas? 



Dr. LEVIN. Well, as we indicated a moment ago, I think there are 

 procedures now in effect which will have a tendency to either 

 eliminate or certainly minimize the adverse impact of highway 

 improvement in relation to park lands. The requirement is that 

 the conservation or park agency having jurisdiction over the park 

 involved must make a finding as to whether it does or it doesn't 

 find the highway use compatible with park use. 



