Reform the County Road System

New York, 1895

Under the law recently passed giving the board of Supervisors increased powers in the matter of the county roads, a reform should be effected in the system so that only the principal highways that are continuous through the towns and of general use shall be maintained at county expense. The plain principle of the county road idea was violated when there were thrust into the law a lot of highways that are of purely local or neighborhood importance, roads that are feeders to the main highways. All such roads should be cut out of the county system and relegated to the custody and care of town officers.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 17, 1895, p. 4.