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Show ROAlt i WIDE ROAD DRIVE PLEDGED SUPPORT Advocates of the popular but slow-moving slow-moving wide road campaign in the Chicago Chi-cago highway region have received unexpected support from two powerful power-ful road building agencies, and cited Pennsylvania as a precedent In the proposal to use stale bond Issue funds In doubling the width of pavements on the existing main highways when; heavy tralllc warrants immediate Improvement, Im-provement, writes J. L. Jenkins In the ( 'hicago Tribune. Following an official trallic survey and study of congestion on state roads corresponding to main arteries leading lead-ing Into Chicago, William II. Council, engineering executive of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania hlghwav doiiartment and former president of the American Itoad Bulld-ers' Bulld-ers' association, announced that the Lincoln highway pavement will be widened to a minimum of 40 feet entirely en-tirely across that slate as a departmental depart-mental project. Another champion of wdde roads appeared ap-peared In the person of Dr. I,. I. Howes, deputy chief engineer of the T'nilod Slates bureau of public roads. He declared that narrow pavements are a conslant menace to transportation transporta-tion in fhe West and that motorists will not long tolerate I lie congestion on terminal gateway highways. Roth authorities made their slatenienfs in connection with progress reports to the Lincoln Highway association. "The present policy of I he Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania department of highways," said Council, "is to plan and build new work to suit the probable future traf-fice traf-fice requirements in each instance. It would he absurd to say that all state roads require the same width of pavement pave-ment as, for Instance, does the Lincoln highway near Philadelphia and Pitts-bur';h. Pitts-bur';h. In !)"!" a considerable mileage of -10-foot pavement was laid on this main trunk line west of Philadelphia and 40 feet will be the minimum pavement pave-ment width of the road entirely across the state." |