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A common theme throughout the evolution of the transportation r 0 SO Wm 61 to 80 -41to60 D c:Jo j:::;:::;:::j 1 to 20 ~$! More than 80 ~ 21 to 40 MILES PER GRID CELL OF 283 SQUARE MILES Fig. 6 Road density in Nigeria, 1953 (compiled from sheets of the 1:250,000 map series published by the Federal Survey Department, Lagos) 160 NIGERIA ROAD DENSITY 1953 Transport Expansion in Underdeveloped Countries 45 system in Ghana and Nigeria, and also in the other examples studied, has been the steady rise in the importance of road traffic, which first complements the railroad, then competes with it, and finally overwhelms it.
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