CHANGING RAILWAYS INTO ROADS.
t.'aii »hl railway tracks. no longer required tor their original puriwse. bo made useful oii.-o more? This is a ifueidhm wliieli railway engim-ers often ask. and as old branch lines are closed down owing to Jack of Ir.-itlie il. becomes a very practical one. Au answer to it has been found in the L'iiited Slates, where cxpertfi are advocating that obsolescent railway tracks should be converted into roads for heavy motor t.ratlic. The experts say that the cost of transforming an old railway line into a modern road would be less than a third that of constructing an entirely new highway The Slate should therefore he able to buy disused trucks from the railway companies al quite n substantial lieiiro and still show a tn-olil. The value of lhe idea, of course, ih'pemls on whether .or not m-w roads are needed. If and where the,' are the scheme h.-it poi? ibilit ms.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 6
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