ROADS AND TRAFFIC
EXPANSION IN AMERICA. AUSTRALIAN’S IMPRESSIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. One million dollars a day are being expended by the Federal Government in the United States, according to Major W. T. B. McCormack, chairman of the County Roads Board, Victoria, who is returning to Australia by the Monterey. “ It is the greatest road programme undertaken anywhere in the world,” he said, adding that he had travelled 16,000 miles by road and rail in America. In the 11 western States 3,000,000 dollars were being spent on traffic survey. Great attention was being given throughout America to the Installation of 44 electrio eyes ” to record automatically the passage of trafflo. There are 28,000,000 cars in the States. He greatly admired the work of the engineers who were tackling in an exhaustive manner, every form of traffic problem.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 2
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