Concrete Roads.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 1 March 1921, Page 157

Concrete Roads.

The value of the cement concrete roadway, which connects Toronto and Hamilton, is declared by Mr. George H. Gooderham, Chairman of the TorontoHamilton Highway Commission, to be of “greater importance than any other section of highway in Canada. On the busiest days the traffic exceeds 8,000 vehicles, the average being about 3,000, and the average motor lorry traffic about 400 per day. Farmers living fifteen miles from the . Toronto market who formerly made three trips by team per week by being up early and late now leave home at eight in the morning, are home for dinner and supper, and make twelve trips per week by motor lorries in comfort. Many of the farmers, Mr. Gooderham declares, sell all their market produce at their own gates to the motorist, and some of them six miles off the highway haul it to wayside and community markets which have been encouraged by the Commission. — Commercial Motor.