MAKING STREETS OF STEEL.
Steel streets are being experimentally built in New York. The strpets are not paved with steel from kerb to. kerb, but are merely provided with continuous steel tracks which truck wheels can follow, -These steel tracks will be about a foot wide, and set at a standard gauge, and heavy waggons will follow them up and down the streets as they do now the tramway lines. The great advantage will be in avoiding sudden interruption of traffic, as the tramway cars are constantly forcing the' heavy trucks back and forth from the tracks, and the loss in time is enormous. The amount of steel required to form such tracks averages about 75 tons to the mile. This includes bolts and splices and all other articles re* quired. It is. believed that a ' steel road would cost no more on the average than stone roads, while it is stated that the repairs would be far less and the durability nearly twice as long.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 3 January 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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