New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
TWO GREAT ROUTES
FOR AUTOMOBILISTS
Massachusetts to Complete
Trunk Lines Early
This Summer.
TWO SHORT SECTIONS
REMAIN UNFINISHED
VIII Have Continuous Modern
Highways Through and Across
State by Midsummer.

After a score ~ years OF work. Msssa-
chuset,s pioneer in eocd roads building
iii shortly complete two OF its most i'o-
crtant pieces of work. The rubbing OF INC
tate from end 10 end and from ton to
cttom With unbroken trunk lines oil hrst
lass roads.
t'y the time the touring season gets
Oh under way the Eastern state viii he
a position 10 invite the motoriSt to tour
ON Tho New York Inc on the west 10
'oSton on the east and from beyond the
crrimac ON tho north 20 the tip OF Nape
"a on the south. without once helms
oaogcd 10 use other than a modern high
Way. either state road. metropolitan Vr
,ity parkway OF improved town road.
Very early after Massachusetts adopted
tAe policy ~ state aid I'm highway con.
>ivuction. il became a settled plan T.
work alons certain definite routes con-
uccting the larger centres of population.
one of the first OF these routes decided
upon was the cast and west road oy way
OF Springfield, and another was the shore
road
For fully twenty years pieces OF hiSa-
way have been built along these routes
and with work that is TO be undertaken
this spring by the Highway Commission
thcy viii be completed They will oGer
90 the motor tourist the opportunity Of
Viewing the scenic grandeur of the Bay
State in The Berkshircs. the Connecticut
Valley and the whole length OF the coast
line with q good road all the way.
only two small gaps remain to be hllco.
and work is TO he started upon these as
ICON as the condition Of the ground per-
,nits. on the east and west line there Is
O. small stretch TO be built in the town Of
lee. and ON the coast route there are two
>n'au gaps in Plymouth and Bourne.
When the lee work is done the tourist
-rtm the West may enter Massachusetts
M a fine state road in the town Of Han
.ock OF in Richmond. pass through Pitts
rsld or Lenox. then over the new road in
leo. surmount the famous Jacobs Ladder
IN fine mscsdsm and descend through
vestdeid into Springfield.
A little city asphalt and then there IS
continuous good road TO Worcester, even
the had Leicester hill having been resur-
faced last fall. From Worcester there is
a state road until the Newton Boulevard
the tourist into the heart OF the city.
With the completion Of the work in
Plymouth and Bourne the mOtorist f-om
Maine or New Hampshire may enter
Massachusetts in Salisbury. follow along
the shore southwark. cutting across the
base OF Cape Ann, and enter Boston ovc-
the beautiful North Shore drives and by
the Metropolitan Revere Beach Parkway.
Crossing Someryille and Cambridge. or
n he prefers 10 avoid the city streets
circling them. the motorist may depart
over the Fenway and Blue Hill avenue.
Passing along over good roads in Milton
and Quincy and then on a state highway
follow the windings OF the sandy South .
Shore through Cohasset, 10 historic
Plymouth. over the new pieces in the .
south part OF Plymouth and Bourne. aud .
then hug the inner side OF the cape u
Provincetown.
or il he wishes he may branch of in .
Bourne and 20 almost 10 the most south .
erlv point OF the mainland at Woods Hole. .
4 new three-arch concrete bridge under
construction between Onset and Point IN
dependence I'm Wareham. replacing an Did
'he bridge. viii add TO the pleasure OF the
trip 10 Woois Hole.
other great routes are practically com
pleted and will be advanced by work
during the summer. One Of these is The
main line across the state on the north.