THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1931.
$35,000,000 BRIDGE FOR SAN FRANCISCO.
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Architect's sketch of the bridge to go over the Golden Gate at San Francisco.
Strauss, its designer, is shown at upper left, white arrow in map points to its location.
San Francisco, Dee, 9.---Papular; height wil be 210 feet at the piers, [
a $35,000,000 bondinerensing to approval of inane finally permits erection of centre.
The Golden Gate bridge across the entrance of San Francisco bay. It will be one of the largent us permion bridges in the world and Its construction will be a five-year job.
the
will begin.
220 feet 1st The
To Open Up Interior.
CLEAR SIGNALS BY MOTORISTS.
Should Semaphore be
Compulsory?
[By Daily Mail Correspondent, i
WII the adoption of automatic semaphore arms or nignala by drivers of motor-cara become general in this country?
At the present time there are several European countries in which the use of this type of signal is compulsory, and in ather countries their use is encouraged and they are fited to all official ears and public service vehiclos.)
In Berlin the taxicabs aro to be fitted with them, and FA British frm making a semaphore sign has just received large order for them. The police authorities in thin country are also fitting them Ja many cases to their official care.:
With the modern closed ear Iti is very often difficult to see the arm of the driver of the car in front, and many drivers in wet or stormy weather are reluctant to
open the side window of a !53 | salom to make signals. More- lover, & driver's hand is invisible at night unless he wears Bome special apparatus, while a sema- phore algnal warns a point duty policeman in front far more clear- y than a hand which way the driver of a vehicle intends to turn,
Code of the Rond.
The bridge is expected to open
It IA aedesirable to throw a ready market for truck and farm; products in San Francisco and its another burden on the motorist by See 27 Miles From Tawers
imetropolitan aren from Napa, making the fitting of a sign of this Towers supporting the cables Sacramento and upper California type compulsory, but early in will be 740 feet high and will have vanera and valleys of the northern January the new Code of the Road |will be issued by the Ministry of rinas enclosed observation coastal states. rotundas at the top with elevators
and it might be pos Transport, The San Francisco plaza, with carrying sightsters up to a 27-its fine portal structures, will have sible to incorporate something on mile view.
tremendous appeal to tourists, the question of semaphore signals their interest heightened by the in this code, suggesting that their
encourage their adoption approach to the bridge through use would be advantageous and so military reservations with great roast defence gus in full view. motorists.
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The bridge really had its beggin-
The bridge will serve to upen wine in 1919, but it wasn't con-- sideres seriously until 1924 when tich land to cast residents and furints. Motorists crossing it War Department approved will, within a short time, be in the plans for its peretion. Now with land of
The bridge will be designed on! This code, it is understood, will giant redwoods, modernistic lines and will be he founded largely on the recom the voters' approval, work soonhunter's or fisherman's paradise pinist in aluminum, giving it amendations of the Royal Commis
fertile valleys up-stativer sheen..
aton on Transport. In its recom Sections rich TO undeveloped
the Commission, The centre line of the fall cable mineral and timber resourers will Estimated traffic for the first mendations
pension structure will rune revealed with the opening of your will be nearly 6,000 cars a which put forward the idea of the
Tday, although the bridge's cupa-rodo
rode, anys nothing about automa northwest from Fort Paint Light the bridge.
Jeity will be more than 250,000 tic signals, but one of the clauses house in San Francisco to Marin The great Redwood highway vehicles a day.
of the proposed code says: "Before enty by way of Lime Point. it route, one of the world's most Joseph R. Strauss, famous en-ny alteration of your course, will have a span of 4,200 feet from beautiful roadways, will be avail-gineer of Chicago, who had a hand give the appropriate signal with centre to centre of the piers, 700 able to motorists from the south. in the construction of more than your right hand on the right-hand feet longer than the Brooklyntinued to British Columbia, con-is at the hoal of the enmmission
The same highway is being con-400 bridges and the Panama ennal, side of the ear." bridge. The plaza to płaza length|necting with the Roosevelt high-of engineers designing and will be 8,943 feet. The eloarance)way in Oregon.
Forganizing the project.
They make several other refer- ences to signalling with the hand.
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