ELEVATED WAY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 26

ELEVATED WAY

SPEED AND SAFETY NEW YORK'S EXPRESS ROUTE (From "Tho Post's" Representative.) .NEW YOKE, 12th November. The first section of Manhattan's £4,000,000 elevated express highway will be opened to-morrow. In its trial opening, a cavalcade of eight cars, containing city officials, entered the "second story" speedway and sped across the city, untroubled by intersections or-traffic signals,! at 60 miles an hour. A steel girder in the centre divided the elevated structure into two groat roadways, along which six cars ! may move .abreast,1 three northward, three southward. The guard rails are of steel, covered with concrete. There areno crossroads. Entrance is by ramps, which are parallel with tho main structure and lead cars, directly ,on to the highway in the direction in which they are headed. Everything •ibout the highway is built for permanence. The granite paving is smooth as li'lass, and its builders say it is good l?or forty years. The steel work supporting the highway has been built strong enough to bear a second roadway above tho present traffic lanes. When completed, tho speedway will be eleven miles long, providing a rapid transit routyj for cars to Bivcrsido drive, along-the Hudson Eiver. Engineers estimate that 5000 vehicles an hour can move in either direction over tho 70ft wide roadway. This is double the capacity of ; Fifth avenue. A 50-n__e-a_-hour speed will bo permitted throughout. Sometimes misfiring occurs at vary low engine speeds, and is accompanied by difficult, starting. Tho trouble very often lies in the contact-breaker points being set too closely, which.-may bo duo to wear or slackening of the adjustable contact. Tho remedy 5s to adjust them to tho gauge provided on I the magneto spanner. . ■■ . : . ;