SUPER-HIGHWAYS PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 9

SUPER-HIGHWAYS PLAN

Twelve lanes wide and constructed so that speeds of 100 miles an hour might be attained in comparative safety, super-highways have been proposed to meet traffic needs of the United States of America. A Bill for construction of ten such highways, three running east and west and seven north and south, has been drawn and given serious study by the Government. The cost would be over £1,000,000,000, with the roadways to be operated on a toll system that would make them selfliquidating. Besides tolls, a concession plan is proposed to increase revenue. Sites would be leased for hotels, service stations, and for many other purposes. Every effort would be made to keep the highways attractive. A generous park strip would separate traffic into two-way streets or roadways, with six traffic lanes in each direction. Already the War Department, seeing national defence advantages for its motorised army with such a network of super-highways, is stated to be interested in the Bill. Among features of such a road operating between New York and Boston would be a block signal safety system. This roadway would run beneath cities, and could be traversed in two hours and a half, according to research experts.