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Show IDEAL ROAD IS t INDIANA PLAN Will Show Three Types of Surface on Electric lighted light-ed Highway . . j , Washington April s. what ia a. perfect highway? 1 The Indiana highway commission and the federal bureau of public road? are co-operating in trying furnish an example of perfect road building A description of this, I j I 'vision of the future" In given by ifd the department of agriculture. "Plans."' says the department, j 'have been received by the bureau of public lands, untied States department depart-ment of agriculture, for the ideal section' of road to be constructed on Ml the Lincoln highway in Iake county, coun-ty, Ind.. during t li r enminjr summer "The designers of this road Intend m produce in H their vision of what the main highway of the country must be In the future The plans submitted by the state highway de-HM' de-HM' partment of Indiana show that the l' .section will bo nearly one and three-quarter! three-quarter! miles in length and will be pluced In the middle of a 100-foot HI right of way. The roadway Is to bo fU! forty feet wide and provision Is rftadQ for the use of concrete, bituminous IJij concrete or brick sections with five-BfTi five-BfTi foot gravel shoulders on each side Each type of surface Is to be a thick-; I nes- en Iculated to Withstand heavy ! traffh . .ivht travel will be made safe by j electric lights "!iirty-five feet above the roadway, and at suitable Intervals Inter-vals on one side of the road. All electrli Wires Will be underground. I ' For pedestrians a five-foot gravel 'sidewalk will be placd In one ol the 25-foot strips of parking which ' are to be on each side of the road and the pnrklng will receive effective effec-tive landscape treatment. "It Is not thought that present tr.iffu justifies fcfie width of roadway to i- built, but rather it fs Inteaddit as an object lesson for the future And the traffic studies to be phMs on It win be valuable' in settling many Questions OLS to the relation of traffic traf-fic density to road width, tha best methods of traffic regulation and oilier oili-er problems that are becoming more Important each year Federal aid will b gl inted on this highway nt the rate of $20.0oo a mile." The t'nlted Statca Is now in a period pe-riod of great highway development, and in a few ycir- rn.iin mud.-- w.inh now oarry only locr.r (rattle. origin il-Ing il-Ing largely within five or ten miles of th road, will hi carrying a large pen entage of through traffic. much of it coming from outsld the state. Thi-; is the opinion of officials of thv bureau of public roads, based upon the report of two traffic census'.-.-; taken tak-en by Ihe bureau In co-operation with the stale highway department of Connecticut Con-necticut The roads selected were part of a fairly Complete system of hlshwuys. The first census showed an average of 2.907 passenger ears and 281 trucks passing the recording station a day. and the second r.,832 cars and 611 trucks Korty-f-even per cent 01 the cars came from without the state, 1 'rivers were questioned as to length of travel for the day, and re-suits re-suits showed average figures of 70 ' miles and 52.4 miles for the two censuses. |