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Show j Dream Becomes Reality As 160-Mile Road Opens Completed after two years of actual actu-al construction work, the Harris-burg-Pitt"burgh Tunnel turnpike is a 160-miie invitation to drive fast and safely cinder perfect conditions. The Dream Road is a practical demonstration of how safety can be built into highways, leaving only the human element the driver, himself as a potential cause of accidents. Into this unsurpassed example of engineering en-gineering and construction skill have gone all known methods of eliminating elimi-nating accidents two-lane divided construction; wide shoulders to take, parked cars off the roadway; grades and curves reduced to the absolute minimum; clover leaf interchanges to avoid traffic friction at points of entrance and exit; and nearly a thousand specially designed signs to tell motorists just how fast they can go and give them complete information in-formation about tunnels, curves and traffic interchanges they are approaching. ap-proaching. In planning the conditions under which the toll highway will be operated, op-erated, the Turnpike commission has even taken steps to reduce accidents ac-cidents caused by the human element. ele-ment. The sale of intoxicants, for example, is prohibited at all of the service stations and restaurants along the route; pedestrians are barred. The latter step obviously will enable the Turnpike to produce accurate ac-curate and enlightening information regarding accident frequency when only motor vehicles are using a public pub-lic highway. |