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Show ENGINEERING JOKE COSTLY TO P0CATELL0 PO'CATJELLO, Ida. Nov. IS. Ap-j proximately $70,000 must be spent in! straightened out the viaduct, an rn-j gineerlng Joke in the city for several years, according to City Engineer N -! ville. Eight years ago the railroad built j a viaduct over Us tracks. It is stated that the residents were u.sked whether they preferred a subway or a viaduct at Center street, and a viaduct was preferred. 'tie was constructed with circular approaches at the eastern end. These have been a serious handicap to the city's traffic in the last few-years few-years anil have also been a serious menace to safety of all vehicles running run-ning over the "hump." It has been ailed an "engineering Joke." and other names not in the engineers' en-gineers' dictionary for Its freakish curves, and now It Is up to the city to straighten out the curves and run the viaduct straight across thel tracks. |