NEW YORK’S MOTOR ROAD
ELEVATED TRAFFIC NEW YORK, Oct. 2S. The first section of Manhattan's elevated express highway, costing £3,500,000, was •opened when a caravan of motor cars, speeding GO miles an hour over a granite block pavement, swept from the Banal to TwentySecond street, 25 ft above ,tho tangled traffic of the west-side waterfront. A steel girder in the centre divides two great roadways, along which six cars move abreast —three southward and three northward —at the rate of 5000 hourly each way.
The granite is smooth as glass, and is guaranteed for 10 years' wear.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17409, 6 November 1930, Page 11
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