‘CITY OF THE MOTOR AGE'

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 6

‘CITY OF THE MOTOR AGE'

UNIQUE SCHEME IN U.S.A. It had to come! *'A city of the Motor Age” is now being built at Radburn, U.S.A., as a solution to the pressing problems of traffic safety. The Radburn plan provides for separate footpaths for pedestrians, distinct from the roadways on which automobiles travel. Large parks, where youngsters and grown-ups can walk and play in safety, occupy the centre of each super-block. Children can go to school or into the park without crossing a street used for vehicular traffic. Each Radburn house has two means of access—a motor entrance and a garden entrance. bridals arriving by automobile, as well as tbe grocer, the milkman, the coalman, all who drive, go to the motor entrance by way of short closedend streets around which the houses are grouped. DESIGNED FOR SAFETY An entrance on the other side of the house opens on the garden, at the end of which is a path for those coming on foot. This path forms part of the park system, while the short, closed-end streets lead to broad traffic avenues. A number of these closed streets, with the houses, which are grouped around them, form a block many times the size of the ordinary city block, with traffic avenues at its boundaries and a long park strip in the centre. In blocks now being built, the parks are joined by an underpass, where they are crossed by a traffic street. RUXTON NOW A SIX New Era Motors, owners of the Ruxton front-wheel-drive car, has been acquired by the Moon Motor Car Co.„ of America, which will begin mass production of the Ruxton at its St. Louis factory. The Ruxton has appeared only as an eight-cylinder car in the high price class, but the Moon Company will produce a six at a moderate price. WORLD’S LARGEST BUILDING The erection of the world’s largest building—the airship factory and dock being built by the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation—is rapidly nearing completion. Six thousand tons of steel will go into the frame work of this giant structure which is the most difficult part of the construction work. When completed this building will be used for assembling and housing the two mammoth airships—to be the biggest flying craft ever built—for the United States Navy Contract which was awarded the Goodyear concern in October, 1929. Denmark holds first place in Europe with regard to the number of fuel stations in relation to registered motor vehicles. It has 5,700 stations and 106,000 vehicles making 18.4 vehicles to each station. Then follows France with 22.1 vehicles to every fuel station, Switzerland with 22.9 and Germany with 23.3. Holland has 23.7 and England 27.6 registered vehicles to every station. L. E. Jones, of Douglas, Arizona, just across the international line has driven his Buick to Mexico more than 50,000 times. He believes he holds the record for crossing the International boundary.