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Show Plan to'Make Safe Grade Crossings and Curves for ., Vehicles and Occupants To abolish the danger of grade crossings without nbollshlng tho crossing, cross-ing, is the object of the road commissioner commis-sioner of one of the Southern states. Ho suggests n Strip of road running for about 100 yards alongside tho railway rail-way track and Joined to tho highway ny a broad curve, well banked, so that a driver, on npp'roachlng' tho tracks' nnd suddenly .becoming nwaro of an oncoming train, could swerve to tho right nnd avoid a smash. Another road Improvement has been put Into effect lit some parts of California Cali-fornia where the roads climb stcrp hills In long' zls-zags. At the sharp angles where the zig-zags, meet, lnrge circles of mid havo been cut, outside tln nngle, w that n car coming com-ing down the mouiilnms lit high spend can swing around the circle and proceed pro-ceed on Its downward1 path without the danger of mnktngr n sharp turn. A enr coming up tho mountnln makes a similar swing iirnund iiad thus avoids tin stnlln on its steering: gear Involved In making a turn at an acuto angle when Its englno Is already strained to the uttermost. |