Better Utilization of City Streets

City streets in this country represent an annual capital outlay of $3,133 billion, based on 1966 data. This figure is more than one-third of the total annual capital outlay for all streets and highways, $9,123 billion. Another $1,114 billion was spent annually for maintenance of city streets, so $4,247 billion was spent each year on city streets. O f this total $4 billion, $2.5 billion went to municipal extensions of state highways and $1,759 billion to other municipal roads and streets. These figures are cited only to show that the subject of city streets is big business. Any discussion of making better use of a product which costs as much as this one does is obviously a worthwhile endeavor. Looking at Indiana, the capital outlay total is over $50 million, and the maintenance figure almost $20 million. These are 1965 data, but the level presumably has not changed greatly and this is “ big money” which we are discussing.