GREAT HIGHWAYS SYSTEM FOR U.S.A.
NATIONAL ROUTES MAPPED OUT BY DR JARDINE. By Telegrroph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 20.. 0 4-5 am.’* ASniXGTOX. November 19. The Secretary of Agriculture, Dr W. Jardine, has inaugurated a national system of highways comprising 70,884 miles of the country’s best roads. This is the first national highway system which the United States has adopted and established- It will consist of 145 routes touching everv State in the Union. Th\ total mileage only a fraction or the 2,866,000 miles of roads of all kinds in the United States, but the selection of the best lays down a foundation for welding the others into the system later. The co-ordination of the routes has been made in response tc* a nationwide demand by motorists whose increasing numbers found increasing difficulty in touring the country over roads marked chaotically. The achievement constitutes the most ambitious attempt at a national system since Napoleon laid out the still existing network of national routes in. France.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17699, 20 November 1925, Page 7
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