Wednesday Morning
ROAD CONGRESS—10:00 A. M.
At..........................
Wilson T. Peterman, Pres., Louisiana Highway Commission Presiding. (If he will).
Roll Call on Work in Progress, Plans and Problems.
Led by the Managing Director.
Opened by I he leaders selected at t lie Divisional Meetings.
This session to cover not only reports on construction progress and problems, but to be open to highwa y commissioners, engineers and workers for discussion on questions of state and national legislation and highway policy for this southern territory, and to embrace not only OST territory, but its feeders from the north. An additional objective is a sounder understanding of the problems of the highway commissions and organized effort to assist in their solution.
Action will also be sought for the passage of laws empowering Highway Commissions to control the naming and sanction the marking of federal and state aid high ways; and to control promotion and soliciting schemes along such highways; and also to eliminate and prohibit advertising on the rights of way, and if possible on the land adjacent to such highways.
Action will also be sought looking to cooperation by map publishers to slop applying numerous names to single highways, and to stop the practice of mapping and publishing highway promotions that have no real existence in many of the sections mapped in behalf of the promoters. Reports will be submitted showing the practices of the “Road Runners” and the blight they cast upon legitimate highway development; of their money-gathering schemes: of the highways that arc burdened with live to ten names and the medley of markings that result; of the promises that arc made to communities that cannot be fulfilled, etc., etc.
Report, Committee on Legislation.
Report, Committee on Resolutions.
Announcements.
Adjournment.
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