MOTOR ROADS OF FRANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 6

MOTOR ROADS OF FRANCE.

To motor over 7000 miles of Macadamised roads, level as a billiardtable, is not an experience to be enjoyed everywhere. Mr Wunderlich, who returned to Sydney a few days ago, said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that throughout France the roads were irreproachable, and motorists had an ideal country in which to travel. “The roads,” ho said, “are all numbered so clearly that a stranger could not lose himself, being clearly defined by stones with the numbers on them and the direction in which they lead. The name of the nearest town is indicated on every stone. In certain parts you can see 10 or 12 miles ahead of yoli, the road being straight, like a ribbon-, and twice as wide as our biggest road, perfectly Macadamised, on which you can travel at any speed, and to which there appears to be no limit in France. It is quite easy and safe to travel on these roads at from 55 to 00 miles per Hour, and they do it, too. Even in the city of Paris motor driving is very much faster than in London. As you motor into a French village there is a generally a notice-board requesting motorists in very polite language to respect children and drive slowly. As you leave the village you find on another notice-boards in largo letters, •‘Thank you.’ The greatest ‘road-hog’ is bound to notice this, as it is incessantly repeated. The touring club of Fraiico has over half a million members, and has subscribed very largely towards the upkeep and creation of new roads ”