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April 5. 1955

Iir. J. Pondleton Gaines
1815 North Mills St.
Orlando. Florida

Door Penn:

You have been kind enough to eased to no a copy of your letter of hat-ch
28. 1955. addressed to Honorable C. Farris Bryant. who I have known for a long time

and who 1. of coarse. regard as a very an. and conscientious public official.

1 assure that you sent a copy of this latter to no because I happen to be
a number a! the State Road Board. As such. 1 an very ouch interested in year View

points and l have been hoping that no opportunity night be available to both oi
as where we could sit down and discuss cone of these highway problem.

I believe that I out say truthfully. the present State Road Board is try-
ing to do a reasonably good job of planning. Without going into detail. I an aura
that you are thoroughly aware of the financial condition in which we found the Road
Board early in January. I do not wish to appear to be injecting myself into any

pro or con discussion with reference to the proposed Turnpike. There are some factors.
however. which I think that you might not to have in niad.

For maple. In the prosont condition of the finances of the State Road
Department. ova if we received the Special Appropriation which your letter suggests.
it would still be difficult to do a really top-notch Job of primary highway non-
atraction. For mla. we laid out a work program for prinary highways. totaling
some 06.000.000.00. Actually. by making themst oii'eotive use of federal aid
latching font and other funds available to us. no will do well to place under contract
this year primary projects totaling 540.000.000.00. Frankly. if we do this. I will
feel that we will have done a fair JOIJ. l. for one. an oomittod to the basic idea
of proper and adequate long-range planning of highaay oonstruction. I {eel that we
should unite the best possible use of federal aid latching funds. I feel that We
should qploy the sufficiency rating formula in deter-mien the priority of con-

atraction. "owner. the bald iact ruins that you cannot build roads any more than
you can build anything else without finances.

Because of my position on the State Road heard. it oust be obvious to any-
one that I am tranonriounly anxious to build roads and to t3 to help do a good Joh
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of it. I would welcome any mpplemeotary funds appropriet selected that would
enable the Bond Department to do a better and o more cmlete Job. I would. honour.

sound a keynote of Warning to any group that is advocating a substantial appropriation
for any particular govormcntal activity. That running in that our acres-mental

leaders. and this includes numbers of the Legislature. are charged with the region-
sibility of providing adequaton for all of the activities of garment. Ihea people

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9o "r. J. Pendleton cum April 3. 1955

d-and particular governmental services. they should have in Mad that the
service in which they are interested is not the only obligation of gorement
but. on the other hand, that there are as, may others often tines equally

deserving and equally under-financed.

i also note your very sensible mgestion that so-called By-passes"
should be limited access facilities. As a masher of the ood Board. I can
agree with this reconnection. 0n the other hand. if you were a amber of the
Road Board. 1 believo that you would find that one of the major problems in
arterial higiassy construction is the problu of liaited access by-passes. As
a matter of foot. substantially the sac arm-en applies to any arterial high-
! construction. Certainly. traffic can be nosed faster and more safely on
limited access facilities. M. the present time. he even get Into considerable
difficulties when we suggest raised Iodian strips dam the center of fnurlane
facilities with n lillted number of cross-overs frost one side of the road to
the other. You would be surprised the washer of people who rqscatedli 138
0" 8Pecial cross-overs to serve their particular business enterprises.

i hope that you will consider this letter as having been written in n
vary cordial and understanding spirit. 1 nerer wanted to take the time to under-

score the proposition that this matter of hqu construction is not one that
can be brought to n happy solution over-night or merely by diverting n fairly
substantial mount of mnoy from other gown-mental activities.

I join you in the thought that proper pleasing is imerative. The
effective use of hinhway dollars nvnileble is an absolute must. nonwor-
assusing that we have both of these. it is going to rosin a difficult job
here in Florida to do all of the things In the line of highway construction that
should be done with the funds available fro. the existing sources or {ran eren
the additional sources that have been suggeste. Nith cure mney. obviously.
we could do n hotter Job but i seriously doubt that we can build 0 cot-plate
primary free-(my system with funds non nvoilnble supplanontod by new sources

which have been sugar-stood.

Looking forward to seeing you sometime at your convenience. 1 res-in.

Slit yours.

a \
Huber.



Wells

on: Honorable C. Farris nryant
House of Representatives
Tallahassee. Florida
sir. iiyron E. llerlong
6/0 MS. Her-long Comany
Leesburg. Florilin



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