New Britain herald., 1925-08-13
AGAR HIGHWAY IS
 NOW CONSIDERED
From New Haven to State Line
 Cost S4,@O,0OO
Hartford. Aug, 13,-A new high q

Hartford, Aug, l3--A new high way capable of accommodating four cars abreast, 50 miles long, running between New Haven and the New York state line. costing four and half million dollars, Is tentatively planned by State Highway Commits sioncr John 4. Mcdonald.
 The plan is to have completed In about three years a concrete slab nine inches thick and SC feet wide In an S0-foot right of way. which. the current issue of the Engineer ing News-Record says. 'ls probably the longest stretch of paved road Of equal width under actual construc- ton In the United States"
 No sooner will this super -highwav for general traffic be completed, In the opinion of Commissioner Mac Donald, than a parallel "eXpress highway" for commuters to and from New York vill be necessary, if commuters continue to swell the population Of Fairfield county at the present rate. Preliminary surveys already have been undertaken to de- tern7ine the most advantageous To. cation for such a highway.
 An Aerial Survey
 The f1Sth Observation Squs dron of the Connecticut National Guard has offered the services of airplancs, pilots and photogra phers to assist In the preparation of necessary topo- graphical maps of the territory through which the proposed highway would pass.
 Ten years ago the possibility (of 3. super highway like that now being constructed from New Haven to the New York line) would have been derided,' says the Engineering News Record" Five years ago the proha hility would barely have haen conceded"
 Thousands nf Cars
 More than 1e.ooO automobiles passed 2 given point on the Boston Post road in Greenwich on July 3 of this year 1t is announced. On the previous day. 1n.037 cars were count ed there, and. on the following day, 1o.o43, startling increase oyer the counts taken by the United States Bureau of Roads in cooperation with the state highway department in 1922 and 1928. Traffic has in- creased at that point about 20 per cent 2 year. This traffic both hy It's volume and It's regularity and by ifs high annual increase makes clear the growing inability of an 1S-foot road 10 give it accommodation" says the engineering publication II is the busiest section of state highway in the country.
 Million Dollars Year
 Four contracts in the project have already been let, involving eXpendi turos aEgregating s1,o1o o,n33 The work will cost, In round numbers. S1oo,Oo0 a mile, and the state high way department is approaching 1t with the idea of spending about million dollars year on it for five years. Independent. experiment 7ections undertaken two years ago are being linked up in the general plan.
 "Wdnnne the road 's 2 major operation both financially and con- sfructionally," according to the News Record" which has had ex- ports on the scene studying it. "The road Is through the famous shore district a settlement of rich resi- dentia', resort and manufacturing towns and cities merging almost Into each others boundaries. Land Is as- tonshinely high priced. Widening rallod for more land, the taking down of rows of great trees, the moving back of costly walls and fences. the disturbing nf property rights which had endured since the time Of the Pilgrims