Milford chronicle., 1929-05-10
NEW TRAILS FOR THE TOURIST

touch OF whirling wheels this
spring.
Roads completed during the past
year now make an almost unbroken
I trail of first class highway from
Maine to Florida, as well as pro-
viding numerous short cuts from
city traffic anG new rcu.es into the
national arteiIes leading west.
The Standard" Touring Service,
o. 26 Broadway, New York city,
representa- ives of whic1 have made
a personal survey of driving condi-
t1ons along the whole Atlantic
coast, gives the following outline of
recently completed roads in the
Middle Atlantic States. together
with some of the principal routes
into the north and south. Conven-
iently folded, up-to-date maps of
this territory are available gratis
at all Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey dealers and service sta
tions.
Three outstanding developments
are of particular interest TO motor
lists in this section of The country.
The first, of course, is the COM
pletion of the Northwestern Turn
pike (U. S. 50) along practically its
whole length as far as Parkersburg,
thus adding fourth route over the
Alleghenies. The Lincoln Highway,
the William Penn Highway through
Easton, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh,
and the National Old Trail through
Baltimore, Cumberland, Wheeling
and Columbus, have long been pop
ular. Now the Northwestern Turn
pike adds a fourth. The road, which
has been under construction foI
years, runs from Alexandria, just
south of Washington, through Win
chester, Clarksburg and Parkers-
burg to Cincinnati. AS far as Par
kersburg most of the few remaining
detours from the main highway are
all good roads.
The second important develop
ment in the Middle Atlantic States
is the practical completion of U. S.
311 from Roanoke, Va, to Winston
Salem, N. c., which enables motor
lists to come down through the beau
tiful Shenandoah Valley almost en-
tirely over a perfect road surface.
A third is the opening of the Blue
field to Wytheville CVa.) link on U.
S. 21, thus shortening the route
from Ohio, West Virginia and Ken
lucky down through the Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida.
U. S. so, running between Lexing-
ton and Covington (Va) has been
under construction for number of
years, with a bad detour. The road
has recently been opened for traf-
fic, however, and is now an import
ant East-West artery.
The completion of three bridges
across the James River, Nansemond
River and Chuckatuck Greek is an
other great time-saver for those
travelling from Portsmouth and
Newport News.
Heading North = Through New
Jersey, New York and New England
an attractive network of state and
national highways spreads out be-
fore the northward bound vacation
ist. Perhaps the best feature this
year is the opportunity for avoiding
heavy city traffic on through trips,
where before long delays wasted
time and tested tempers.
In New Jersey, for example, two
recently opened sections of the pro-
jected route which is to parallel the
Lincoln Highway through the state,
and which will eventually connect
downtown New York with Trenton
and Philadelphia, cut several towns
off the route of the Iorth-bound mo-
torist.
= The first section, which allows
the tourist to avoid Newark traffic,
begins in Elizabeth. A right turn
off the Lincoln Highway (Freyling-
huysen Ave.) into North Avenue
leads on past the Newark Airport
and back into the Lincoln Highway
just west of the Passaic River.
Another section, completed last
fall, enables cars heading toward
New York via the Holland Tunnel
to avoid much of the Jersey City
traffic by leaving the Lincoln High
way Just east of the Hackensack
River bridge, going around the west
of West Side Park and under the
Boulevard.
Between Trenton and New Bruns-
wick full half hour has been clip
ped from travel time through the
of Brunswick Pike, the
longest straight highway in the
state, which skirts both Princeton
and New Brunswick. By the end of
this summer there will be a clear
stretch from Trenton right through
to Elizabeth, with the exception of
a detour through Albany avenue in
New Brunswick. With the compile
tion of the Raritan River bridge in
1880, this last delay will be elmii-
mated and the tourist will have a
nonstop route all the way.
Going further north, the Albany
Post Road will probably carry the
burden of traffic between New York
city and the state capital. The
construction projects which have
caused so much delay and incon-
venience during the past two years
have practically been completed, and
except for a few short sections,
chiefly in the towns, the motorist
using this route now finds wide
concrete boulevard at his service
for nearly the entire distance. 1t is
advisable to avoid the Mohawk
Trail and the west bank of the
Hudson.
The South-The completion of U.
S. II from Florence, S. c., through
Kingstree to Charleston and thence
on to Walterboro and Savannah, at
least along the most important
stretches, closes one of the last
links on the Maine to Florida route.
There are now less than so miles
of other than hard surface roads
along the whole distance, and those
are scheduled for hard surfacing in