SAFETY OVER MOUNTAINS
GUIDE LINE OF 64 MILES
Australia is fast becoming a motorists' paradise. The contour of the country is admirably suited for motoring and there are few of the^ engineering difficulties which are met with at nearly every corner in New Zealand. Greatest development at present is in New South Wales. The addition of another section north of Newcastle to the perfect highway already joining Melbourne and Sydney makes this road the longest continuous stretch of bitumen surfacing in Australia—more than 740 miles.
Penetrating the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, the ParramattaMount Victoria section of the Great Western Highway will be the most modernly equipped and probably the best safety highway in Australia. It will be the first highway in the State with machine-made centre line marking along its entire length of 64 miles, and will have a complete series of marker posts to. give the road width and emphasise curvatures. In addition there will be "talkie" signs with cat's eye reflectors and other safety indicators unique in Australia.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 2
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