Evening star., 1941-11-20

Henry McLemore. astound the tax
payers; they'll look on that as sort
Of small change boys fish for through
gratings.
No. the thing that will hold UP
the building of the superhlghWay
will be the lack of enough bill
boards, hot dog stands, beer joints,
quick lunch shacks and tourists
accommodated signs 10 line II
properly from beginning TO end.
All of these are needed 10 complete
any frst-class American highway
and make it official
1t undoubtedly would DO some
thing dreadful to an American
mOtorist to turn him loose on a
highway whose borders were not
lined with the everbloomlng neon,
the hamburger and Bar-B-Q per-
ennial and the thousand and one
other forms of industrial Shrubberv.
1t might easily give him bad case
of aeoraphobia to have 10 drive
along a road where he had clear,
unobStructed view Of woods and
mountains and rivers and other Of
natures What-have-youS.
However. We are a wonderful and
ingenious people and perhaps way
will be found to clutter up and
litter up the proposed highway to
the proper American standard. If
way is found. and construction
begins, I want to urge that a COM
mittee Of plain, average motorists
be selected to advise the engineers
and furnish them with suggestions
for the building of A highway that
would really make automobile
drivers happy.
There are dozens Of little ideas
that should be incorporated.
For instance, the EXTRA EXIT.
The extra exit is the one you
would leave the highway on after
YOU had missed the regular exit.
1t would be placed Just far enough
past the regular one TO allow the
driver to correct his mistake after
he had heard this from the back
seat:
Why didn't YOU turn of where
YOU are supposed TO? Are YOU blind?
Now we'll have to so miles before
there's another place to get of.
knew I should have driven
/ Signposts giving the distance
between towns should be accurate.
There is nothing more diScouragIng,
particularly late in the day, than
to see a sign "Blackyille "a MI" and
then after what seems endless driv-
ing, to come upon another sign
which says only % Miles to Black
vile Eat Shop-Best Food in Town.
Mrs. Jones. Prop" This sort Of
thing makes a driver mad at Mrs.
Jones. prop. Blackville. the whole
idea of coming on the trip, and all
Of his passengers.
All police cars on the superhigh-
way should have a device for fash
ing messages. This would enabla
the speed cops to tell the motoriS,3
back of them that they (the cops
are not driving AS fast as the speed
limit allows and it is all right to
pass them. Very few of US have the
raw courage to whip around a police
car, even if 1t is barely making 10
miles an hour. Every one has seen
long professions led by a police
car going 20 miles an hour when
the signs definitely said a speed OF
so mp.h. was legal.
&%&
The superhighway should be one
lane wider than even the most elab-
crate plans call for. This would
eliminate the necessity of starting to
tear it up week after it was
finished in order to widen it by one
lane.
One lane of the highway should
be reserved for that type Of Ameri-
can driver who always starts trip
determined to drive farther in one
day than some friend of his has or
make better time between two
points. You know the type, the
kind that says. We'll, sir, it's hard
TO believe that l got in the old
jalopv about in the morning and
you know Uhere I had dinner?
Houston. Didn't o1v- last. either.
Just kept the Of bus rolling
But perhaps it is preSumptive Of
us average motorists to advise
politicians about the proposed high
way. There are enough highway
men among them to handle it.
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