U.S.A. ROAD WORKS

Grey River Argus, 7 August 1937, Page 6

U.S.A. ROAD WORKS

Greatest Scheme on Record tPer Press Association]. AUCKLAND, August 6. One million dollars a day is being expended by the Federal Government in the United States, according to Major W. T. B. McCormack, Chairman of the County Roads Board of Victoria, who is returning to Australia by the Monterey. “It is the greatest road programme undertaken anywhere in the world,” he said, adding that he had been travelling 16,000 miles by road and rail in America. In the eleven Western States, three million dollars was being spent on a traffic survey. Great attention was being given throughout America to the installation of “electric eyes,” to record automatically the passage of traffic. There were 28,000,000 cars in the States. He greatly admired the work of the engineers, who were tackling in an exhaustive manner every form of traffic problem.