THE NEW MOTORWAYS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2713, 22 June 1925, Page 9

THE NEW MOTORWAYS.

Doubts are being expressed in England regarding tho wisdom of the mo-tor-roads that are being constructed —perfect surfaces leading directly from the point of departure to tho Journey's destination. “The railway traveller has to go through the country like a parcel, while the motorist who realises his essential privilege can traverse it like a person,” says the “Observer.’’ “The prolonged motor way seems to take all that emancipation away again. A wise man likes to masticate his journey as well as his food. The taste for being swished to Brighton and swished back again has, if we may say so, just a tinge of pathology about it. The typical motorist soon escapes from its first seductions. And although perfect surface has a charm of its own and an economical side which many car owners to-day have every reason to consider, these will not wholly counterbalance the drawbacks of being transmitted by what has some of tho attributes of a conduit pipe. A long journey in a procession of motor-cars along a road which is as isolated as a railway is not the most stimulating of entertainments: it is very different from passing by hamlet, village, inn, and crossroads in a continual reciprocity of human interests and curiosities. The straightest road is the most tiring, not only for horses’ legs, but for men’s minds. That is the little fact which may contain a pit-fall for the bestlaid economics of an ingenious proposal.”