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SAN FRANCISCO
WRECK STOPS TEST.
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930.
SAFETY FIRST.
Dangerous.
Chrysler's Fine Run. Billboards Said to
SYNTHETIC FUEL.
dust is elimenated, detours are improving, washouts are repaired, with convincing dispatch, snow is) be removed with constantly increas
ing efficiency.
DRIVERS CONFUSED.
Washington, Jan. 20,
"Yet it is on these roads that rural advertising thrives and con- fuses the driver..
NEW SPEEDWAY.
Suggestion to Build in England.
An endurance run that was
"Obviously a driver needs his WORK FOR 2,000 MEN. being made by a Chrysler 65 saloon on the Avus track in Berlin,;
whole attention on the road and Road side advertising on huge a grade crossing. Any advertise-mobile Racing Asociation, Ltd., for
crossing signals when approaching came to sudden stop when the car bill-boards which obscure the view ment may distract him. Similar permission to construct a motor The application of the Auto- ran over the banking and was and attract the attention of the provisions, with similar excep Skegness along the foreshore of wrecked.
motorist from his job of driving tions, apply to highway intersee the Wash in Lincolnshire was in- speedway between Boston and The car had been running on this dangerous to human safety, istions and sharp highway curves. truck continuously for 69 dass and the opinion of Dr. L. I. Hewes, nights and
even after it was deputy chief engineed of the U. S.
There is in the legislation Board of Trade by Captain V. H. quired into recently on behalf of the wrecked the engine was kept going
much variation... No state absolu-Branden. and finished the equivalent of 70 Bureau of Public Roads. days.
tely prohibits the display of ad- "We know that outdoor adver-vertising within public view of the the association, outlined the scheme.. Mr. G. L. du Cann, counsel for Up to the time of the accident tising on private property inter-highway. In fact, one state makes It is to provide a main speedway it had covered 54.024 miles at an feres with highway operations. it a misdemeanour to remove ad- from 12 to 16 miles long and 200 average speed of 34 miles per that it mars. the scenery and that vertising signs from the right of yards hout. The fuel used was a Ger- at times it is even dangerous," he way..
wide. Down the centre man synthetic spirit and the con- says,
would be a roadway. 100 feet wide "There is, in the newer laws, a with return loop roads. Access to sumption was 21.25 miles per "Outdoor advertising screams marked evidence of the recogni- the sea would be provided-at-inter- galion.
Continental tyres were loudest on the most densely tray-tion of danger at curves and, at väls by gateways." itted at the start of the run and felled roads. These are the expen-railroad grade crossings. Many these were changed at the end of sive roads built and maintained state laws forbid signs along the half of the association and also as Earl Howe gave evidence on be- 50,000 kilometres.
The test was and largely operated by the state highway within a distance varying president of the Marine Motor carried out under the observation highway departments. These are from 300 to 1000 feet of such Association, for a motor-boat
the roads where the operating job, crossings. Some states weaken, waterway also s proposed. already difficult, is growing con- however, and stantly more difeult. There is officers to tolerate signs even with-ployed for two years....
permit legal -He said. 2,000 men would be em-. constantly better maintenance-
of the German Automobile Club,
preliminary costs, including the test borings, which cost $29,940. Retirement of the bonds and all other expenses will be taken care of by the toils. .......
Not Harmful in War."
The Redwood Highway's empire is pictured here: Scenca along the highway are shown to the right of the map. Upper photo shows the Douglas Memorial Bridge over the Klamath river on the way to Crescent; lower right is a view of the highway running between the huge redwoods; and lower left shows the highway winding through the Smith River Divide.
The foundations for the two: San Francisco, Jan. 20th highway which stretches from San mission reveal that, the general which will be determined by the towers, the exact location of Spanning San Francisco's fumed Francisco, through the interior of average traffic increase Golden Gate and linking the city California, up into Oregon.
over the borings, will be get in approxi- with seven counties, the recently
northern portion of the Redwood mately 48 feet of water on the begun Golden Gate Bridge is ex-
Heavy Traffic Caused Bridge
Highway during the past 12 San Francisco side, and on the pected to materially inercase the
months has been 67 per cent, with rocks slightly above tide level on The interior of California along a 212 per cent. increase of out-of-the Marin county side. wealth of the Redwood Empire by this highway began to develop. state cars from the north. Gen- further opening inland territory. And with this development traffic eral Redwood Empire traffic is between Fort Point, San Fran
The depth of the Golden Gate This bridge will be the largest commenced to increase. Traffic shown to have increased 19 per cisco, and Lime Point, Marin uspension bridge in the world, it over the highway and its connect-cent. during this period. is said, From Fort Point. Suning system of lateral and parallel] Francisco, it will throw its central rouds grew to tremendous propor- Noted Engineers Build It. span 4100 feet or more to Lime tions and each of the eight coun- Point, Marin county. Its single ties north of San Francisco bay deck structure will be strung an profited by it. cables three feet thick 200 feet above tide level.
Hardy motorists who travelled the pany to take care of it.
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and the fact that the ferrien were This large increase of traffe,
hard pressed to accommodate it, Golden Gate Bridge. was the basis for building the
courty, where the engineeers have fixed the bridge site, averages 300 feet. Because of this. fact,
the Golden Gate, army engineers, coupled with the swift currents of
agrece that demolition of the bridge in time of war would not impede navigation.
As this trafic grew, the neces sity for a short cut across the bay This engineering feat, one of was realized and a ferry boat or- the most gigantic ever under-ganization was formed which did taken in the United States, had its a rushing business. So rushing thorities as Joseph B. Strauss, start wihin a year-the. Redwood After this bridge is opened- Such famous engineers and au-actual construction is expected to inception some 10 years ago.in fact that it pressed the com-Ralph Mojoski and Alfred Lilan- Empire, composed of the counties thal have put their approval of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, roads out of San Francises up the Some idea of the extent mountains into the redwood dis-travel through this district may been started under the direction boldt, in California, and Josephine of the project and work has already Nava, Lake, Mendocino and Hum- tricts came back with reports of a be gained from the traffic wonderful land that only needed of this ferry company. A six neer.
figures of Strauss as chief bridge engin-in Oregon will benefit by a direct good roads for development,
month's survey of 1929 show:
Preliminary estimates set the and Grant's Pass, Ore.,
connexion between San Francisco And so the Redwood Highway May, 121,967 passengers: June, cost of the bridge at $27,000,000, Redwood Highway. Markets will Association was formed and from 140,493: August. 157,705; Septem- part of which will be collected in jopen up more and business in over the that muclens of motorists spranzber. 127,706: October, 99,384. the foundation that pushed
taxes and the remainder in tolls. general is expected to benefit by through that famous California for the California Highway Com-lied. This assessment is to defray cisco bay.
On top of this, figures compiled A three-cent tax has been lev-this short cut across San Fran-
THE
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AUTO SHOW.
JUST MY LUCK-HERE I'VE BSEN PARKED FOR HOURS IN JACK'S NEW SUPER-SILLIOUS ROADSTER AN' NOT ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAS
PASSED YET
Captain Malcolm Campbell, the racing motorist, said the track pro- posed would be the best in the world and would, make the district the Mecca for all speed-events. Foreign- ers who wished to compete in the world's racing would have to come here.
Captain Woolf Barnato, another director of the association, said there was no place at present where our motor manufacturers could test their products.
Captain. Brandon will report in due course.
A rough estimate of the cost is between £300,000 and £600,000,
1922 SCRAPPED IN 1928.
It has been estimated that of the 4,358,748, motor vehicles manufac tured in the United States during 1928, 2,416,720 were used to replace vehicles that had been scrapped. This replacement nearly equals the production of 1922-2,646,000.
in the danger limit when judged not obstructive to view.
"It would seem that highway officials could demand that the rural right of way, be entirely free of any outdoor advertising what- ever To eliminate further the advertising nuisance,"wider rights of way would help."
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