Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
CANADA OFFERS 100000 MILES OF
TRAVELABLE AUTO HIGHWAYS
Annual Expenditure of $4O,OOO,0OO in
Dominion Reported-Many
Tourists From i. S.

Development to point where there
are 900 miles of travelabIe high
ways, and an improvement program
calling for an annual expenditure of
$40 900. 900 for construction and main
tenance. mark the roads building
policy of Canada
An outline of Canadian highway
progress was presented to the recent
World Motor Transport Congress by
A. w. Campbell. Dominion commits
sioner of highways. Regarding ade-
quacy of rights of way, connections
with United States roads. provision of
funds, road patrol and kindred mat
ters. Mr.. Campbell said:
During the last few years road inn
provement has been carried on with
such activity and with such results
as to astonish all users of Canadian
highways. Our road improvements
are of the finest construction of their
several types, and a great percen-
tage of the main or heavily Travelled
roads has been built on the highest
model. Locations have been carefully
selected, old road allowances widened
and roadbeds made of generous and
uniform proportions, varying from "a
to 80 feet in width, culverts and
bridges have been made to conform
in width and all constructed of the
most durable and substantial ma
terials.
Grades Are Reduced.
Grades have been reduced to mini
mum, curves opened and carefully
banked to provide for safe travel with
the exercise of reasonable care and
81 do xrridt If ri oh 4.
of-way for trunk roads in Canada is
Sc feet; standard width of grade-30
feet, and hard surface standard-cen-
trail, 20 feet.
1.-THE improved roads in the eastern
provinces of Canada form a connected
system from Windsor. Ontario. to
Halifax and the Sydneys on the
Atlantic Coast; and in the western
provinces from Winnipeg across the
prairie and the Rocky Mountains to
the Pacific Coast. Very shortly the
connection between these two great
areas will be completed. At present
ty a slight diversion, traffic from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts, ap
proximately 1000 miles, is serviceable
and uninterrupted.
"In eastern Canada. for example
there is one continuous hard-surfaced
road extending from Windsor-Detroii
easterly along the north shores OF
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and the
st. Lawrence River, passing through
London, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston
Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. thence
along the south shore of the st. Law
renee River through the st. John Val
| ley and the north shore of the Bay
of Fundy to Halifax and the Sydneys
approximately / 800 miles, joining
| United States paved roads at Sault
Ste. Marie, Port Huron, Detroit, Buff
| falo, Niagara Falls, Ogdensburg, Ma
lone, Rouses Point. and lines running
south from Montreal and Quebec
| Calais-St Stephen, st. John. Var
| mouth, Halifax and Prince Edward
| Island.
System of Main Roads.
"In the western provinces of Can
ada a system of main roads Is being
developed, connecting at the provin
cial lines, through Manitoba, Saskat
chewan, Alberta and British Colum
bia. ard-surfaced roads of the most
substantial type are built over the
Rocky Mountains and through the
Fraser River Canyon, making through
continuous roads joining the prairie
with the Pacific Coast, uniting there
with the celebrated Pacific highway
extending from Vancouver to Los
Angeles.
THE roadway over the mountain
ranges has been carefully laid out by
engineers experienced in railway and
highway location in such territory.
In instances and 10 loops were re-
quired to reach the summit. Gradients
and widths of roadway are uniform,
offering but little resistance to trac.
ton and all safely protected and
guarded on the outer side by protec