AMERICAN HIGHWAYS.
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NATIONAL SCHEME ADOPTED.
EVERY STATE TOUCHED.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Nov. 20, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, November 19. The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Jardine, has inaugurated a national system of highways, comprising 75,884 miles of the country’s best roads.
This is the first national highway system which the United States, has adopted, and established 145 routes, touching every State in the Union. The total mileage is only a fraction of the 286,000 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 routes has been made in response to 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 routeg national in France.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 5
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