MOTORISED DETROIT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 February 1926, Page 16

MOTORISED DETROIT.

Almost everyone in Detroit, it seems, drives. Everyone with as little as five dollars for a first payment is a potential purchaser. Detroit makes more automobiles than any other city; two hundred thousand of its population are, employed in automobile factories. They make motor-cars, and they ride rn them. So Detroit’s thoroughfares are cooked with machines —flivvers by the ten thousands, trucks, passenger ears of every description, jitnies and motorbuses. Detroit to-day is hard pressed to keep pace with its motorised citizenry. Subways, elevated, wider streets, stringent parking regulations —all have boon suggested as panaceas. In the meantime the situation becomes more acute. Where to put a car is more of a problem to many than raising the funds to buy it,. For two years past street widening has been in progress, but it has not kept up with traffic increase. Some of these streets are to be widened to 204 feet. One super-highway, connecting Detroit ami Pontiac—civics twenty-five mill's apart—provides room for four machines moving in each direction a 1 the same, time. Yet e ven this roadway already has experienced serious traffic, tic-ups.