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...Prudent Way. More & more states are discovering that one answer, where traffic is heavy enough, is to build roads that pay for themselves. Indiana and Illinois have tentatively outlined projects to extend the eastern super-highway route to Chicago; New York is building a 535-mile Manhattan-to-Buffalo throughway; Florida has plans for a 350-mile Jackson-ville-to-Miami speed road. Along with everything else, highway costs have been rising: Ohio's Turnpike will cost $1,300,000 per mile v. a mere $476,000 per mile for Pennsylvania's original mileage. Tolls are rising...
There is even a rumor abroad that Massachusetts will widen part of the abomination which takes the traveller from Worcester to the state line. A four-lane throughway from here to Gotham is almost in the realm of distant possibility...