This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...width of 14 plus 8, or 22 feet should be ample for almost any purpose. Courtesy, Commercial Vehicle. FIG. 83.--HORSE DRAWN VEHICLE' OCCUPIES 17 FEET OF ROADWAY WIDTH. The difference between the 18 and 22 feet represents 4 square feet for each running foot of street, or 4/9 of a yard. Estimating that paving the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...width of 14 plus 8, or 22 feet should be ample for almost any purpose. Courtesy, Commercial Vehicle. FIG. 83.--HORSE DRAWN VEHICLE' OCCUPIES 17 FEET OF ROADWAY WIDTH. The difference between the 18 and 22 feet represents 4 square feet for each running foot of street, or 4/9 of a yard. Estimating that paving the roadway costs $1.50 a square foot, this means a saving of $0.67 per running foot, or $33.33 for each 100 feet laid on each side of the street. If the property owners are assessed for the cost of paving, it might be interesting to place the proposition before them in these terms of dollars and cents and ask if they consider the additional 4-foot width worth to them this cost of $33.33 for construction together with future costs for repairing and reconstruction. From the city's point of view, it may be considered whether it is desirable to incur, for this additional width, the added cost of cleaning, sprinkling, oiling and otherwise maintaining this additional width. Courtesy, Commercial Vehicle. FIG. 84.--MOTOR VEHICLE OCCUPIES 11 FEET OF ROADWAY WIDTH. There are other considerations less apparently bearing PIG. 85.--RURAL TREATMENT OP RESIDENCE STREET. Park Avenue, Glencoe, 111. on the subject; for instance, since a street pavement is much less impervious to rain water than lawns and yards, the wider the roadway the greater the amount of run-off to the sewer, and consequently the larger the sewers required to remove the surface water. If, as would probably be the case in an ordinary street of this kind, the roadway be made of macadam, gravel or other of the more easily abraded pavements, practically all of the dust reaching the houses, lawns and those using the sidewalks originates on the roadway, and the wider this is the greater the...
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