BY 1935.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 July 1928, Page 14

BY 1935.

MILLIONS MORE CARS,

MAXUFACT UR ER S ’ FORE GA ST

Many people attempt to imagine vvliat road trarfic will be in the iuture. Mr \\ aiter P. Chrysler, the ' wellunown motor manufacturer, expressed tne following opinion—at least,! as far as his own country is concerned:

■'i,y 19.0 the United States will have on its streets and highways from .0,009,0b1> to 35,000,000 registered motor \chicles. How can we accommodate that great army of passenger cans, trucas, and buses ? In the centre of our larger cities more of the rail traffic winl. be underground. In some cities the surface car will give way to the bus. In others the street cars will lie token off th© streets and put in underground tunnels. Elevated or overhead trains will be torn down. .Subways will b© substituted. Streets will be widened where it can be done without inconvenience by making footpaths narrower. More boulevard systems will be laid out. Arterial highwavs will be constructed. Our larger dties will b© connected by express highways. These will be* enclosed like i abroad rights-of-way. There will be separate lanes for slow-moving vehicles and separate lanes for the faster moving ones. When grade crossings are encountered the highway will go overhead or underneath. America to-day lias a. most ambitious road-building programme. ‘•There is every reason to believe that this programme will be expanded .until the United States will have a great system of transcontinental liighwav is and roads, extending from Canada to 'Mexico. Of course, as soon as we finish a two-way highway, traffic on it frequently increases to a point where \ a four-way highway is needed. This is hound to be true for eight or ten more years. The United Stairs will nevei- complete its road-building programme. New highways will he needed constantly. Old highways must ce kept- in repair, and many of them must be widened. The elimination of grade crossings js a tremendous job. The work should continue until every dangerous crossing is eliminated, with an over-pass or under-pass built in its stead. There is also the job of eliminating curves from highways. Engineers to-day agree that highways must posses® what might be called built-in safety. Signs cannot be relied upon to make highways safe. The parking problem will probably be with us always, but it will be met in part by electing toll ramp garages in areas where rents are not so high.”