V OCEANS LINKED.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18618, 22 April 1932, Page 3

V OCEANS LINKED.

5000-MILE MOTORWAY. AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT. (From a Correspondent.) TORONTO, March 18. To-day it is possible for a motorist, without much adventuring, to drive from Cochrane, in Northern Ontario, within 140 miles of James Bay, about 5000 road miles in a direction generally south to Oaxaca, in lower Mexico, 350 miles south of Mexico City, and more than 1000 miles below the United States boundary. For a great part of the distance lie will And permanent pavement, and the traveller is bound to be impressed by the infinite variety of scenery and development. Two great projects now are under way which will expand greatly the motor tourist's horizon in the Americas during the next few years. Canada's trans-continental highway is being constructed in easy stages, and much work lias been done in it in recent months for the relief of unemployment. When the existing links are united in Northern Ontario and in Western Canada it will lie possible for the motorist to proceed from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic without leaving Canadian Territory. The other project is vastly mare ambitious, and will take more time to complete. It is nothing less than the knitting of Mexico, Central America and South America through one great Pan-American road which will ne joined to the great highways of the United States and Canada. When that day comes the motorist who starts in Vancouver, British Columbia, and drives to the end of the road in Southern Chile will have covered something like 13,000 miles.