100 MILES AN HOUR

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 149, 22 February 1939, Page 4

100 MILES AN HOUR

AM KKI CAN OAR TRIP CO A ST-TO-C. 'OA ST sCHEAIE " -"Cars— travelling i?t. I!;> miles per hour with ~a greater degree of safety than is thought possible to-day is a new scheme, being developed in the United States, according to Air. L. C.

Rolls, of Napier, who has recently returned from a trip abroad l . • . While in America, Air. Roils heard of the scheme and investigated the details. The scheme provided -for » a coast-to-eoast trip by motor car in 23. hours. The road is designed to start in Now Jersey between New York; and Philadelphia, pass midway between Chicago and St. Louis, across southern.. Wyoming and into California north of. San Francisco. ..r,A, , A ‘feature of the new roadway will he traffic lanes separated bv throes feet walls curving eoncavely outward;, and upward from the roadbed. If the., motorist veered to the side of the road the concave would propel him. back to safety. At night there would , lie no headlights, but preceding tlio. ear for.4ooft. would be flat sheet thr ( light On the road surface caused by reflectors along the roadway. r J he highway is double, one leading to the eastand the other to the west. 'l',here are three tracks of what -a r re " called “must” speeds. One alloys' ■ travelling at 70 miles per hour and n > track of more than two lanes for -30 miles an hour. The speeds allowed' are not less.than five miles over cr under tlie “must” speeds. ,-vy-