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...enough to challenge the prowess of every red-blooded driver from Bognor Regis to Balquhidder when the initial 72-mile stretch of Britain's first six-lane throughway opened last week after 590 days abuilding. M1, as the government proudly labeled the London-Birmingham Motorway, is intended-when its final 45 miles are completed-to almost halve the time it now takes to crawl along a major industrial artery (average speed: 23.4 m.p.h.). But it boasts one feature guaranteed to lure speed-starved drivers from all parts of Britain. It has no speed limit...
Alas for the Great White Goof [the Senate Office Building fiasco, May 25]. We Britons are acutely aware of our awful blunders of inefficiency, such as the Preston Motorway and British Railways, and I have for quite a time used examples of American efficiency to great effect in grammar-school debates. This powerful and humiliating weapon is now useless. You Americans are fatheads...
Chief sponsor for this motorway was Lester P. Barlow of Stamford, Conn., President of N. Y. & N. E. M. Corp. Mr. Barlow once invented a flying torpedo which according to his specifications, giant motors would drive 225 m. p. h. for 1,000 miles to discharge 500 Ib. of TNT. More practicable, less lethal was the plan Mr. Barlow lately drew up and presented to President Hoover for a system of private turnpikes linking all major U. S. cities. Last week Mr. Barlow assembled at his Stamford home his friends and supporters, outlined his plans for local cooperation on this...
Upon the attitude of the New York New Haven & Hartford R. R. depended many of Mr. Barlow's plans. He proposed that his motorway should parallel the New Haven's line, even in places using the New Haven's right-of-way. The New Haven's rail stations would serve as motorway stations and turnoffs. In return the New Haven would be granted an exclusive bus franchise on the motorway...
...Barlow's plan. First express toll road in the U. S. was the Long Island Motor Parkway (TIME, Sept. 16). Four years ago highway officials of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana began to plan a tri-state motorway, 200 ft. wide, from Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME...