UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 386 



Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural 



Engineering 



LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 



Washington, D. C. 



September 11, 1916 



PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN THE 

 MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES, 1914. 



A Compilation Showing Mileage of Improved and Unimproved Roads; Sources and 

 Amounts of Road Revenues; Bonds Issued and Outstanding; and a Description 

 of the Systems of Road Administration and Fiscal Management, and of other 

 Factors Affecting Road Improvement in Each State. 



Prepared Jointly by the Division of Road Economics and the State Collaborators of 

 the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. 



CONTENTS. 



Introductory 1 



Working plan and sources of information 2 



Road administration in the Middle Atlantic 



States 3 



Public road revenues 3 



Road mileage, 1914 4 



Development of new types of highway 5 



Detailed information by States 6 



New Jersey 6 



New York 14 



Pennsylvania 21 



INTRODUCTORY. 



Beginning with 1904, the pohcy was adopted by the Office of 

 Pubhc Roads of conducting investigations at five-year intervals to 

 determine the mileage of improved and unimproved roads, the 

 revenues for road purposes, and other related data. In accordance 

 with that policy, Bulletin No. 32 was issued, giving such information 

 as was obtainable for the calendar year 1904, and Bulletin No. 41 

 was issued, giving such information as was available for the calendar 

 year 1909. The investigation made for the year 1914 followed some- 

 what different lines, since a closer cooperation with State highway 

 departments had been established, and wherever practicable the 

 information was directly collected by collaborators named by the 

 respective State highway departments and acting under specific 

 instructions from this office. This poHcy was not practicable in con- 

 nection with the earher bulletins, owing to tne fact that many of the 

 States have only recently estabhshed highway departments. 



Note.— This bulletin is of interest to all users of public roads and those who are concerned with road 

 maintenance. 



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