GREAT MOTORWAY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 April 1932, Page 6

GREAT MOTORWAY

TRANS-CANADIAN AND PANAMERICAN ROADS WILL DOUBLE THIS . DISTANCE. TORONTO, Canada. To-day it is poss'ble for a motorist, without much adventuringj to drive from Cochrane, in Northern Ontario, within 140 miles of James Bay, about 5000 road miles in a direc!on generally south to Oaxaca, in lower Mexico, 3'50 miles south of Mexico City, and more than 1000 miles below the United States boundary. For a great part of the distance he will find permanent pavemeht, and the traveller is bound to he impressed hy the infinite variety of scenery and development. Two great projects now are under way which w:ll expand greatly the motor tourist's horizon in the Americas during the next few years. Cana- ; da's trans-continental highway is being constructed in easy stages, and much work has been done on it in recent months for the relief of unemployment. When the ex:sting links are united in Northern Ontario and in Western Canada it will he possible for the motorist to proceed from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic without leaving Canadian terr'tory. The other project is vastly more ambitious and will take more time to complete. It is nothing less than the knitting of Mexico, Central America and South America through one great Pan-American road which will he joined to the great highways of the United States and Canada. When that day comes the motorist who starts in Vancouver, British Columbia, and drives to the end of the road in Southern Chile will have covered