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Finally, in the freely-given expressions of Rockingham County citizens on the decision of the State 'Highway Commission to reroute the projected Interstate Highway 64, contrary to successive engineering opinions artd at an added cost of $37 million, we see, in miniature, a reflection of the Comptroller General’s report of widespread waste of funds in the hurry-up Interstate Program. While the people of Rockingham are not unanimous as to the desirability and value, in relationship to cost, of Interstate Route 64, there is no division in the view (hat the political decision to move • the route was* Indefensible. Qon-i fidence in the State Highway Commission has been shattered.
In Rockingham, as must be so in courttless counties across the land, the warning signs are posted. If public support is to be retained for a national road-building program carried forward by increasing Federal and State taxes on highway users, both the Federal Bureau of Public Roads and State Highway Commissions ftiust provide renewed and credible assurance that the huge sqms being collected will be spent conservatively, in accordance with the well-reasoned judgments of professional highway engineers of proven qualifi
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