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 winter maintenance policy that kept state highways driveable every day of the year. It developed one of the nation's finest networks of attrac­tively designed and landscaped free­way rest areas and roadside parks as well as a statewide system of travel information centers that now serve nearly two million visitors a year.

Off the freeway system, improve­ments large and small were made on thousands of miles of state highways. Higher safety standards and im­proved design made driving safer and easier and speeded the flow of traffic. So did new and improved materials and construction methods, traffic and safety devices and spot improvements