Nevertheless it is important, both locally and nationally, to recognize this recommended system and the routes that comprise it for what they are as that system and those routes which best and most directly join region with region and major city with major city.
And with such recognition, it is desirable, in all Federal, State, and local highway improvement programs, to give to this system and to these routes, promptness and preference of attention, consistency of plan, and a large share of available financial means. This will be necessary for its progressive and balanced improvement at a rate sufficient to halt the present obsolescent trend of constituent routes and to substitute a reasonably rapid movement toward complete adequacy.93800-44-2
