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<br />OJJ:J96 <br /> <br /> No. of <br /> No. of cases <br /> Public Percent per 1,000 <br />Popu- Assistance of Total Popu- <br />lation County Cases* Cases lation <br />185,789 Adams 6,116 12.36% 32.9 <br />162,142 Arapahoe 3.189 6.45 19.7 <br />514.678 Denver 36.389 73.53 70.7 <br />233.031 Jefferson 3.793 7.66 16.3 <br /> TOTAL 49.487 100.00% <br />* Number of cases in May of 1971 <br /> <br />Miscellaneous Problems of Growth <br /> <br />The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Rela- <br />tions has found that significant diseconomies of scale <br />occur in cities of 250.000 population and over. Highway <br />expenditures and police services appear to_Qe particularly <br />expensive for large municipal governments.!! <br /> <br />Professor R. J. Smeed, one of the <br />world's leading traffic systems analysts. <br />has shown that the more commuters a town <br />has, the more highways per capita it must <br />build. He shows that where there are <br />10.000 commuters in a town. they require <br />eight square feet of roadway per person; <br />100.000 commuters require 28 square feet <br />per person; and 1.000,000 commuters re- <br />quire 97 square feet of roadway per per- <br />son. Thus. Dr. Smeed shows a 100-fold <br />increase in population requires not a <br />lOa-fold increase in roadway. but a 1200- <br />fold increase in roadways.Sf <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />ACIR Information Bulletin 70-8. September 16, 1970. <br />An Alternate Future for Colorado, Representative Rich- <br />ard Lamm. <br /> <br />-13- <br />