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. 
Page. 
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 policy was adopted by the Office of 
Public 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 policy was not practicable in con- 
nection with the earlier bulletins, owing to tne fact that many of the 
States have only recently established 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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