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construction, and maintenance of what I learned the day before 

 yesterday is referred to by the experts as the "traveled way." 



The choices necessarily to be made between these competing de- 

 mands are often not easy to make. The coordination between 

 them so far as I can see has been done in spotty fashion, some 

 authorities turning in a good coordinating performance and others 

 not so good. I suppose this must be about par for the course. 



The development of the relationships between Federal, State, and 

 local authorities as discussed yesterday by the panel of which Mr. 

 Goddard was chairman is surely crucial to successful coordination 

 of the very diverse but connected elements in a complicated problem. 

 The demands for the right kinds of roadside controls have to be 

 coordinated by the appropriate authority with the competing de- 

 mands arising from other parts of the whole highway program. 



In the preliminary discussions in our panel, the areas hardest to 

 coordinate well became evident quickly. Not necessarily in the 

 order of importance and certainly not in the order of the intensities 

 of the heat generated in the discussion of them, they could be 

 listed as: 



1. How to get the State and local authorities to take the best 

 advantage of available Federal help for the protection of natural 

 beauty. 



2. How best to protect against impairment of natural beauty by 

 advertising devices. 



3. What to do about the champion eyesores: automobile grave- 

 yards, junkyards, borrow banks, and spoil areas. 



4. How to prevent litter on the highway or roadside. 



As the report presented by our chairman shows, we made some 

 progress toward some good recommendations, and we got stuck in 

 our efforts to agree on one or two others. This shows there is more 

 work to be done on roadside controls and that will be no sur- 

 prise to anybody. But then, what panel did solve all the problems? 



STATEMENT OF MR. BRIDWELL.* For most Americans, roadside 

 areas are a part of their daily environment. The character of that 

 environment depends largely on the use or the misuse that is 

 made of the land adjacent to the public thoroughfares. 



Except where highways traverse publicly owned land, the areas 

 adjacent to our highways are privately owned. The Federal Gov- 

 ernment, of course, has no direct jurisdiction in such instances to 



*In Mr. Bridwell's absence, this paper was read by Mr. Hornbeck. 



