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Under an efficient and responsible executive department, established and directed by the wisdom of Parliament, this subject would be brought within the means of examination and regulation; and many local improvements, which have been confined to small districts, would be brought forward, and communicated generally for the public benefit.[1]
- ↑ Since this Essay was written, I have visited England, and have found,
on a journey of many hundred miles, scarcely twenty miles of well-made
road. In many parts of the country, and especially round London, the
roads are in a shameful condition. This must strike the public; and
sooner or later the good sense of the English nation will feel the necessity
of adopting some means of improvement.
Edgeworth's Essay, Preface, p. 7.
In Ireland, the cross-roads are generally better than the great roads, and comparing all the roads in that country with the roads in England, the shameful inferiority of the latter would evidently appear.
Edgeworth's Essay, p. 46.
