Footpathless Roads . In that connexion the A.A. figures regarding
foot- paths, published on Wednesday, demand the immediate attention of every local authority. Sussex may be taken as a particularly good—or particularly bad— example of conditions prevailing generally. In that county there are 70 per cent, of important main roads with no footpaths on either side of them at all ; and in the case of the subsidiary roads the figure would no doubt be higher still. Here at once is an opportunity of safe- guarding the pedestrian—though to take five or six feet from the roadway for the construction of a footpath might simply create other dangers. The ideal method, where it is possible, is that adopted in parts of the Dorking-Guildford road in Surrey. There a strip for a footpath has been taken from the fields adjoining the road and the hedge left intervening between the pedes- trians and vehicles. Every requirement, of safety, convenience and aesthetics, is thus satisfied.
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