BRITAIN’S NEW ROAD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 17

BRITAIN’S NEW ROAD

A BOON FOB MOTORISTS. OPENED BY THE KING. LONDON, May 30. King George, who was accompanied by the Queen, to-day opened the Great West Road, which is 120 fl wide and eight miles long, beginning at Chiswick. The work has cost £1,150,000, including the purchase and removal of certain houses, but the road enables motorists to evade the 15ft bottle-neck in the main street of Brentford and links up London with the great roads of Western England. “The finest mad in England, and proof against the necessity of repairs, oven under heaviest traffic, for 50 years, I? the description applied to the new Great West Road which the King has now opened. Ihe rend hns taken four *iud a-half years of intensive and scientific work to make, at an average cost of £125,000 a mile, or over £7O a yard, it is 120 ft wide, and is constructed as follows: A foundation of 12in of broken pieces of concrete, bride and stone; above that 9in of reinforced concrete ; and above that 2in of compressed natural rock asphalt. All sewers, water mains and cables are at the side of the road, so that there is no clanger of any sinking or damage or unevenness owing to overgreat pressure.