J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor 491

highway needs, state, county, and municipal, to this Committee,
which will report it to the Legislative Council. This study by the
State Roads Commission will, of course, have to extend beyond
the 1962 session of the General Assembly. It will include determi-
nation of mass transit needs, requirements for corridor movement
of traffic in urban areas, distribution of revenues and other aspects
of the problem. Determination of urban transport needs will include
consideration of the results of studies now being made by the
Miles Commission, the Baltimore Metropolitan Transit Authority,
by Wilbur Smith who is projecting traffic needs to 1980 in an 800-
square mile Baltimore metropolitan area, and a survey of the needs
of the Washington urban area to be completed in 1 1/2 years. "

Herein we believe lies the basis for a study and documentation
which is sorely needed to provide a sound base for the members
of the Maryland General Assembly to exercise their proper judg-
ment on the subject matter of the Resolution and the Bailey Com-
mittee report.

Recognition in our discussions was given to the many phases of
the original recommendations, which needed further study appar-
ently, based upon the action of the General Assembly.

We recognize that the basic desire of the Committee on Taxation
and Fiscal Matters was to assemble all facts which would allow a
proper distribution of revenue, as cited in Senate Joint Resolution
No. 10:

"(1) The ability to maintain a basic road net in each political
subdivision.

"(2) To provide necessary additional facilities where there were
heavy concentration of vehicles; and

"(3) To provide against emergencies, such as heavy snows or
floods wherever they may occur. "

Accordingly, with this in mind, we recommend to you and your
Committee that the State Roads Commission be requested,, or di-
rected, as you desire, to undertake, as rapidly as possible, a study
which would follow the procedure outlined below:

A. —To place in its proper status and category, every mile of
highway presently existing in the state, county and municipal
system of roads, as well as those which are now definitely planned
to be constructed and incorporated into any of the above systems.
To bring this about, we recommend that there be established a
"functional classification" of all public roads in the entire State.

Such a study, recently completed in the State of Connecticut, a
report on which has been made available to us and which came into
being through action of their General Assembly, has been highly
successful, being made in coordination with the various branches
of State and Town governments and generally accepted by all con-
cerned.

I think you realize that over the more than fifty years of existence
of our highway systems, certain roads originally attained an im-
portance in a major or minor system. Today's conditions might
justify their being changed. It is also known that there are many