Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
RURAL ROADS TO
CITY BROKEN BY
ROUGH STREETS
Few Country Highways Can
Be Reached by Good
Routes.
ALL SHOULD BE TIED UP
BY VoLNEY 8. FOWLER.


Country highways are feelers and
feeders. With them Indianapolis
reaches out after the products and
the good will of surrounding terri
tory and sends out what she has to
offer TO meet the needs of her neigh
bors. With the growth of the use
Of motor trucks as freight haulers
the motor routes into and out of the
city have become more and more i'm
portant
Had the original intention of the bulId-
ers Of the city TO have the four diagonal
avenues and a number of direct and south
and east west streets running to the city
limits been followed the transportation
of freight by motor truck would be
greatly expedited today. AS it is only
three highways may be said to have been
developed as originally planned. Wash
ington street runs straight through and
connects with main roads on either end.
Massachusetts avenue, excepting the dan
gerous condition at the East Tenth street
subway goes to, the northeastern limits
and runs on into the Pendleton pike Ken
lucky avenue jogs some but finally gets
to a country road leading southwest
With profitable territory lying to the
southeast Virginia avenue could have
been made a quick route in that direc-
ton, but it ends against Prospect and
Shelby street, both of which go on to
connect with country highways, but both
Of which have very poor pavements. In
-, &uffH Ii
is good only TO the west end Of the
Fail Cree.- bridge, where - must leNve
Il and wind around Speedway avenue
to get to the Charlottesville road, unless
one. does not mind driving over the IN
paved section Of the avenue between
Montcalm and Sixteenth streets.
MERIDIAN STREET
BAD AT ENDS.
Meridian street might be a fine route
to the country highways leading north
and south and is heavily used as such,
but it ends in the almost imI assable ca
nal road on the north and has block
after block of ehuck-holed pavements at
the south end. This condition OF South
Meridian street is doubly bad for mo-
torists with business out of town, be-
causs-tt feeds both the Bluff road and
the Three Notch road.
AS a route to the east, East Washington
street can be improved upon only by
settering the pavement IN several
stretches. and this the board Of public
works has announced it intends to do.
West Washington street in reality is not
completely connected with the National
road because of the unpaved section
from 500 feet west Of Harris avenue to
The Big Four railroad subway at the
haywood road.
4 number Of good country roads, I'm
wportant because they lead somewhere,
end either at or inside the city limits
on streets which are unpaved, narrow
Dr have pavement IN bad condition. Sew
Bral. which have unpeved sections be-
tween them and the city pavement are
70 be improved by the county commits
honers and board Of public works under
\ new law If the announced intention OF
the city board is carried out.
Among the country roads which do not
connect with main city highways are the
Brookville road, to reach which 1t is
necessary to jog through Irvington
Bethel avenue, leading TO Beech Grove
Churchman avenue, going southwest; the
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