ELEVATED MOTOR-WAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 7

ELEVATED MOTOR-WAY

EXPRESS and slow lanes NEW YORK, Nov. 17. The New York municipality to-day decided to construct, rft a cost of £5,000,000, a great elevated highway, four miles long and 65ft broad, for tho relief of existing traffic congestion. Tho new highway is to run from the opening of the now vehicular tunnel —to be completed next spring—at Canal-stropt along the Hudson river shore to 72nd-strcet. According to the approved plans, it is to bo constructed, at a height of 20 foot above llth-avenue, of steel covered with cement, in a design which is described as simple but graceful. Its breadth will enable six lines of traffic —three in each direction —to move in and out of New York at express speed. Four of those linos will he reserved for motor-cars and lorries travelling at .‘3O miles an hour and more. Slower vehicles will occupy the two outside lines. All cross traffic is to be eliminated. At regular intervals huge ramps will provide means for entering and leaving tho great express elevated road. It is estimated that each of the four lanes devoted to express traffic will accommodate a thousand vehicles an hour and the slower lanes about 500. Five thousand cars, or twice the present capacity of sth-avemi<\ will thus be able to move hourly in and out of Now York.