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Show Bridge Reforms. UK Ontario legislature has recently T taken steps which should result In a great Improvement In the chnrater of tho highway bridges of the province. A law hast teen pfiHS-!- requiring all county hrhies ami those township brides which aie more than twenty feet Ion? to be designed and built in accordance ; with general spfci- ' hVations approved by L V t,lH provincial dt- Tw I'M pa-rtment of public .1 f j t highways. In ad- 5t-HT ' I y f i i t ton the law re- r P"7 1 trr.frTl iuirf-s the plans for i, I AJf JlTf'l ;i,-h such bridge to f Wr ' : l' submit! cd to t h &.W W&Rm AM -P;u-tment for ap-hrpirf ap-hrpirf jC . Sl? 3 , oval tn(ja making W ,r probable that L'ifciSkSfc? lu'si structures will PTj fTt ,ie safe and of rea- ' f i? scnable cost- There are many states in the T'nited States which would find tt of advantage to pass similar laws, for the bridge work on rural highways Is often their most backward feature, and the Ion? annual list of failures of country bridges is clear proof of the de-slrabillty of state leKisla tlon to protect taxpayers against the waste of their bridge taxes. " Canadian High-way." "The Canadian Highway" Is the name suggested for the ' transcontinental route to be laid out and modeled after the Lincoln Lin-coln highway through the Dominion of Canada. Peeder Proposed. An enersr?tic start has been made by the Commercial club of Lander to provide pro-vide for the improvement of the road to the Yellowstone National park from Rawlins Raw-lins and from Rock Springs, Wyo., for the use of automobile tourists of the coming com-ing season. The road, known as the Wind River road, runs through Lander and to the southern entrance of the park. It Is expected to be one of the popular feeders to the Lincoln highway. Safety on the Roads. The latest warning of the need of paying: pay-ing: more attention to the safety of travelers trav-elers on roads is given in the new Good Roads Year Rook of the American Highway High-way association. Formerly, when toads were used only by horse-drawn vehicles, the deep side ditch and the high, narrow embankment were not particularly dangerous. dan-gerous. Tie t ween the driver and t he horse there was enough combined intelligence intel-ligence to avoid accidents at such places. But with the advent uf the automobile the conditions have changl. If a -ar is forced oif tho hard roadway onto soft shoulders even the most skillful driver will sometimes lose control of it. If this occurs at the places referred to, there is a very real danger to the occupants of the car. The records of the Iowa state highway high-way commission or September, October and November, If IS, If show that in that f li state alone 353 auto- L mobiles turned tur-r tur-r vf"U )r He. resulting in rive ( Mif Y deaths and 451 in-ii! in-ii! ' Yill'w',1 iuriM. Just how jjlv n Jn'.'r-s "any of these accl" Jkf Tfflili'!" Aft dents were due to mT$-A- iMiMii J etching the cars is "i 1 101 stated, but this l . -did 3 generally regarded f& Stv ls tne usual cause of W-yOS til&Jr overturning. "Where f!B2?-- the ditches are deep i m. or the road is on an o m bankment with steep slopes, substantial guard rails should be provided. During September, October and November, 1016, the Iowa records show that 167 cars went over embankments, killing seven persons and injuring 234. Such a list points more clearly than general arguments to the great importance of guard rails that will act as real guards. Funds Appropriated. Funds amounting to more than $300,000,000 have been or will be appropriated appro-priated for road improvement in the United States during the coming year, according to tho report made at the annual an-nual good roads congress in Boston early in the year. More than 5000 road builders build-ers and engineers were assembled at the congress. Yellowstone Travel. Particular attention is being given the Yellowstone park and the Pacific northwest north-west by prospective motor tourists of the coming season. The Lincoln hlghwav is expected to bring thousands of easterners eastern-ers across the continent bent on visiting the various scenic points of interest west of the Missouri, while enjoying an automobile auto-mobile vacation. |