ROAD TRANSPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 8

ROAD TRANSPORT.

SOLUTION IN AMERICA.

HIGHWAYS WELL DEFINED, STRANGERS FIND THEIR WAY. While -he was in the United States Mr. T. C. Webster, barrister, of Auck' land, made a study of transport p ro ! blems. On his return this week, he said that the system of national and State highways was an excellent one. . In the , St . at l e . s i a J l highways outside o' incorporated districts, such as cities anH villages, were numbered. There wat Federal, or national system, and a k* * State system. Mr. Webster said tl, roads were clearly marked at probaE every intersection, and every f ew mil on long, unbroken stretches. The C!! 3 b ®r ® f th( ; highway was shown on » shield, with the letters W.S. above th! figures, on a national route or H ' name of the State, if a State highwav ' °r there were several roS across the Continent. The number 0 each of those appeared on the hH Wa ' at frequent intervals from the Pa P \l to th Atlantic, men, as often pened, it passed through the Tstreets of a city the shield and numbe* was exhibited at intervals, o ft en vtul the letters R or L appearing beneath indicating a right or a left turn 2 road might often be a link .in a numbe of highways, and in that case all £ highway numbers were shown at inter vals. / Confusion was practically sible and for a stranger the way indeed easy to find.