Highways of the Future (May, 1938) Highways of the Future By E.
W. MURTFELDT PICTURE a 15,000-mile network of twelve-lane motor
speedways spanning the nationâ€”three of them linking the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, six more crisscrossing the country
north and south â€”and you will have an idea of the vastness of
a spectacular highway plan proposed by Senator Robert J. Bulkley
of Ohio. Requiring twenty-five years for completion, the mammoth
gridiron of superhighways would change long-distance driving
from a motorist’s nightmare of snarled traffic into a reality of
fast, safe transportation. It would represent an impressive
start toward an era of scientifically constructed speedways, and
crashproof cars of radical new design to run upon them, foreseen
by leading experts for the not-too-distant future. What will
transcontinental touring be like, say, fifty years from now?
Recently Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Harvard
University Bureau for Street Traffic Researchâ€”the man who is
recognized as the natio