TRAFFIC.
Interests involved in construction and maintenance of streets --
Requirements of a good roadway -- Wearing effect of traffic -- Mr.
Deacon’s standard -- Effect of horses’ hoofs on roadways -- Remarks on
shoeing -- Traction on roads -- Tables of resistance -- Forces tending
to destroy momentum -- Table of tractive force, etc. -- Another table
giving inclinations -- Proper gradients of roadways -- Table of
resistance by Crompton -- Wheel resistance -- Mr. Haywood and safety
of traffic -- Stopping and starting vehicles -- Safe width of roadways
-- Vehicles and pedestrians passing each other -- Sanctuaries --
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