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Show ENGINEERS WATCHING DETROIT EXPERIMENT Ultimately, when the horse and buggy bug-gy idea gives place to the motor transportation trans-portation plan nationally, automobiles must be allowed to travel over long stretches of right of way at their maximum max-imum speed. Wider roads entering population centers, division of highways high-ways into their logical freight, local and express lines, and the unification of transportation laws throughout the United States will make all this possible. pos-sible. So, at least, say engineers of the Middle West and the transport experts now busily engaged in working out the growing road problems of practically every community of any size in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, writes J. L. Jenkins in the Chicago Tribune. All of them are looking eastward this spring toward Detroit, where Wayne county pavement pioneers are pushing the construction of a 200-foot right of way from Detroit to Pontlac, with just this idea of segregating highway high-way traffic and putting automobile operation op-eration into the scientific transportation transporta-tion field where it belongs. When completed this highway will provide tracks in its center for fast and local railways. On the outside two 40-foot pavements will carry the auta-mobile auta-mobile traffic. These one-way lines will provide for slow-moving and local cars on the inside lines and for fast, through motors on the outside speedways. speed-ways. Cross traffic will be protected, according to the first plan, by elevating elevat-ing the intersections and dividing the grades. Thus the cars used to transport passengers pas-sengers or light freight for long distances dis-tances will be given a chance to operate oper-ate at maximum efficiency and minimum mini-mum expense without endangering the joy-riders, the slow-moving trucks and the myriad other tardy vehicles which form the real barrier on any open road. |