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Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.
A fringe of housing and gardens bearded the top of the heights, and behind it were sandy roads leading past farms and hayfields.
When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.
Many of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter.
When we were fighting, a few of our orthodox people were lying down in the roads so we could not pass.
According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.
Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.
Finally, features such as long linear grooves were cut into the bedrock along certain roads which do not seem to point to a specific direction.
Tetrapylones were constructed at the other junctions between the main roads.
In the early 2000s, Bulgaria had some 37, 300 kilometers of roads, all but 3, 000 of which were paved but nearly half of which ( 18, 000 kilometers ) fell into the lowest international rating for paved roads.
Bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just prior to the automobile, and the grading of smooth roads in the late 19th century was stimulated by the widespread advertising, production, and use of these devices.
The roads leading north and west were choked with fugitives.
They were forced to abandon several guns which became bogged down in the muddy roads.
As the “ tourist explosion ” took place in the 1960s, a number of researchers were looking for new standard symbols to be used at roads, stations, airports, etc.
Of the current total, only about 50 percent of the roads and highways were covered with asphalt and were in good condition ; about 50 percent of the roads were made of crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth ; and the remaining approximately 30 percent were unimproved earth or were little more than tracks.

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The rally could not be considered as it mostly used the roads of other European countries.
The construction of roads and dams, financed mostly by multilateral loans and grants, was intended to generate employment to compensate for the impact of the regionwide recession.
The dairy industry was further handicapped by the difficulties of trying to transport milk over poor roads in a tropical country, as well as by stiff competition in the domestic market from subsidized foreign imports, mostly from the United States.
It comprises both an extensive motorway network ( 6, 400 km ), mostly toll roads, and national and local roads.
In other countries, notably the United Kingdom, completions mostly take place on tarmac courses, occasionally closed public roads, with the machines used for competition being similar to those used for road disciplines.
It was a mostly agrarian-based society, but canal projects and a new network of plank roads spurred greater trade within the colony and with the United States, thereby improving previously damaged relations over time.
There were between 3, 000 and 4, 000 kilometers of gravel roads located mostly in the southern region where lateritic road-building materials were abundant.
Vanuatu's undeveloped road system, with fewer than 100 miles of paved roads, consists mostly of dirt tracks suitable only for four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Studies mostly cite the causes of death due to starvation or as caused ( ultimately by the lack-of-food induced ) weakening of resistance to endemic diseases which repeatedly reached epidemic proportions amongst the general Central European population — the German states were the battle ground and staging areas for the largest mercenary armies theretofore, and the armies foraged amongst the many provinces stealing the food of those people forced onto the roads as refugees, or still on the lands, regardless of their faith and allegiances.
* Provinces: They mostly care to roads, forests, and education.
Barbados has of public paved roads ; some historic, mostly unpaved railroad trail ; two active marine ports ( Bridgetown Port and Port Saint Charles ), and one airport, the Sir Grantley Adams International Airport, located in Christ Church.
Bermuda has of private paved roads ; of public paved roads ; of historic, mostly unpaved railroad trail, used in parts as a scenic trail ; two marine ports ( Hamilton and St. George's ), and one airport, the L. F. Wade International Airport, located at the former U. S. Naval Air Station.
The area between Castelnau and Lonsdale Road contains a 1930s council estate ( including roads such as Nowell Road, Stillingfleet Road and Washington Road ), mostly consisting of " Boot Houses ", constructed by the Henry Boot company.
The elderly man and his wife who lived in Mill Lane, Chadwell Heath and toured the estate in a horse-drawn cart on Saturday mornings selling logs and firewood ( mostly tarred wood taken from the East End roads when they were replaced by tarmac ) saw their business collapse overnight.
Whereas roads and railway lines were sliced through Kentish Town and Camden in the 19th century, they mostly passed through Tufnell Park in tunnel, and Junction Road railway station provided a direct link with central London.
These thoroughfares are mostly composed of major and minor arterials, with a few local roads.
Other areas in the park can be reached by un-sealed roads, which are mostly accessible by two-wheel drive vehicles except in bad weather or after heavy rain.
The " forest " for which the city is also named lies in the area between Ridge Route, Jeronimo, Lake Forest and Serrano roads, and consists mostly of Eucalyptus trees.
Because of this, tourism is the main industry in Helen, catering mostly to weekend visitors from the Atlanta area and also, motorcyclists, who enjoy riding the beautiful roads of the Helen and its surrounding areas during all seasons.
To the east of Kell, the Kell road follows mostly modern quarter section roads, with occasional stretches of pioneer roads.
Frye Island is composed of approximately 1, 000 mostly wooded acres interlaced with of dirt roads.
Since border crossing traffic became free and checks are only made inward at a certain distance from the actual border, the border has been ' perforated ' by numerous ( mostly bicycle ) roads.

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These and most other cities and large towns are now connected with asphalt-paved roads, while smaller towns are often connected by dirt roads, which may require a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
Most of the major highways have an excellent bitumen surface and other major roads are usually well-maintained dirt roads.
Drivers unused to dirt roads should be especially cautious – it is recommended that drivers reduce their speed, drive with extra care, and avoid driving at night because animals can stray on to roads.
Travelling in remote areas in northern Australia is not advisable during the wet season ( November to April ), as heavy tropical downpours can quickly make dirt roads impassable.
In settling the American west it was generally faster to navigate down River from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to the Ohio River confluence with the Mississippi and then pole up river against the current to St Louis than to travel overland on the rare primitive dirt roads for many decades after the American revolution.
* Calcium chloride ( CaCl < sub > 2 </ sub >) is used in ice removal and dust control on dirt roads, in conditioner for concrete, as an additive in canned tomatoes, and to provide body for automobile tires.
Most mountain biking takes place on dirt roads, trails and in purpose-built parks.
The roads of California consisted of crude dirt roads maintained by county governments as well as some paved roads within city boundaries, and this ad hoc system was no longer adequate for the needs of the state's rapidly growing population.
Cagney loved that there were no concrete roads surrounding the property, only dirt tracks.
Paved roads are in green, " improved " ( gravel or laterite ) are in solid orange, " piste " s or dirt roads and tracks are orange dashes.
Other roads range from all-weather laterite surfaces to grated dirt or sand Pistes, especially in the desert north.
The remainder are dirt roads with quality varying from smooth hard surfaces with drainage to rutted, extremely uneven tracks passable only with a four-wheel drive vehicle.
The condition of these roads was until recently very poor, with numerous pot-holes and vehicles often driving on the dirt verges since these were deemed smoother than the road itself.
A bulldozer is used to maintain the network of dirt roads in a remote corner of Yaroslavl Oblast
A taxi can traverse any accessible area on the islands, including even dirt roads and trails, if the driver agrees.
The total length of Albania's roads more than doubled in the first three decades after World War II, and by the 1980s almost all of the country's remote mountain areas were connected, at least by dirt roads, with the capital city of Tirana and ports on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea.
Increasing use is also attributed to the high number of dirt roads outside major population centers, resulting in washboard and mud in the rainy seasons.

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