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« THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1955 THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina PAGE SEVEN Cost More But Worth More In End ^QofitTollcd Access^ Roads Iti SpotliQht (“Controlled access” is a phrase that already has been used in descriptions of the future No. 1 highway by pass through Southern Pines. What does this mean? Why is the state acquiring a 260-foot right of way—a strip more than half a tlock wide—for the big Highway 1 project? These questions are interest ingly answered in an inter view with A. H. Graham, State Highway Commission chairman, written by Jim Chaney and published Sun day in the Raleigh News and Observer. Because of keen and widespread local interest in highway problems, now that that No. 1 by-pass route has been approved. The Pilot is reprinting portions of the interview here.) State Highway Chairman A. H. VASSNEWS (Continued from Page 6) New Bridge The new overhead bridge in Vass has been in use for the past two or three weeks, but the road those who derive their livelihood [ roadside is built up. from highway traffic. Some motel *'^Wgh-^connecting it with’ the highway owners and-vice st^atmn opera.|says ^4^Ty%"ocSifedw^ith'Carrot y^et been hardsurfaced. he says, plead the tradi ^ of 35 to 45 Work of tearing down the old miles per hour and reduced to a , wooden bridge which it replaces tors, he says, ^ tional rights of ingress and egress which have always attached to abutting property.” For those roadside business operators who contend controlled access will cost them business, Graham offers some comfort. The pattern for controlled access highways results in a more at tractive frontage for roadside property owners, he says, and provides motorists-customers safe and uncluttered service roads to the places they seek to reach. And, he adds, as access is lim ited to all abutting property own ers, traffic will become accustom- business street.” “When this happens,” Graham says, “it‘s an expensive proposi tion for us to go back in and build another highway on an en tirely new location, often pa" was begun Monday. Brief Mention Mrs. W. V. Nix had three of her cousins as guests Saturday, Mrs. J. B. Yates of Charlotte and Mrs. Gibson and sister of Rockingham. allel to the original and often David Parker of Camp more direct but outmoded route.”, Qg^don, Ga., visited his parents. Allow this to keep happening, I^nd Mrs. J. B. Parker, last he warns, and you eventually ex- ^^eekend. haust the possible locations for and Mrs. Angus McK. highways. 'Traffic Use' Yardstick In terms of traffic use, Graham contends, controlled access will pr*? tratiic wiu D.ecomt; ciucu&iuin- ^ x ed ’to turning off the main high- figure out J® ed to turning on uie luanx way into service roads. Traffic is conventional doing that in other states. All| "For example, he explains, eating places and service stations “we can design and build a stan along^ the big turnpikes in the ard two-lane highway with good ® ahgnment and sight distance that can adequately carry 4,000 ve- Cameron arid son, Stephen, of Lake Landing arrived Monday to visit Mr. Cameron’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Cameron. He is at tending the Methodist conference qtatp Hiahwav e^nairmau XX. aiung — Graham is adding a new phrase I Northeast are set back. Yet tney to North Carolina road-building seem always to be crowded with terminology. It’s “controlled ac-, custoiners. cess” and it stands for safety. Proven Its Worth ' , The phrase will be heard with; Graham says it already has been increasing frequency throughout shown that controlled access de- North Carolina as plans for new sign has proved its worth in and better primary highways take shape. It means that the Highway Commission will control the use and development of all property terms of accident redpetion. The U. S. Bureau of Public Roads has reported, he points but, that on a national basis, all avail able comparisons indicate that along major routes. It means the controlled access feature on greater safety for the motorist but'rural highways has resulted in more restrictions for roadside' about one-third the rate of fatali- business and property owners. It ties and one-half the rate of acci- is certain to mean more trouble dents per unit of travel on roads hides per day. “If we buy more right-of-way and build two more lanes sepa rated from the original by a 30- foot grassed median strip, we up the carrying capacity of the high way to 20,000 vehicles per day. “But if we acquire right-of-way for a four-lane divided highway and control its access with paral lel service roads entering only at designated safe points, the high way can safely carry up to 30,- 000 vehicles per day.” 9 ^ for highway location and right of-way engineers. Graham calls it “one of the best tools in the engineer’s safety kit.” “This one feature,” he explains, which lack the feature “There is no doubt,” he says, “that the removal of side hazards —such as crossing and entering roads, from parking and from "inis one leaiuic, nc i-- = “is designed tO' reduce obstacles driveways—makes for an inher- to the free, uninterrupted flow of enfiy safer design, as well as per- through traffic by eliminating or mitting traffic to move at desir- restricting entrance from or exit' able road speeds without the need to adjacent property by limiting for constant maneuvering, weav- the number of connections with ing and other tiring and danger the high-speed, main highway.” Hazards Eliminated The through motorist will be able to travel mainline routes safe from cars darting in from side roads or driveways, Graham says, and side hazards from crossing and entering road, parking and from driveways will be elimina ted. Along most State highways, property owners have had the right to build as close to the road as they wished, provided they stayed back of the right-of-way line. As a result, Graham points out, every local road and drive way has tied directly into the main highway. As controlled access is estab lished, all that will be changed. at Fayetteville, also. Mr. and Mrs. George Fulton and daughter, Brenda, of Coven try, Conn., are spending a 10-day vacation with Mrs. Fulton’s moth- jer, Mrs. T. J. Smith, and Mr. ! Smith. The Fultons made a week end visit to friends at Kings Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jackson and son of Durham and Mrs. Alberta Whitfield of Jacksonville, Fla., called on Mrs. B. C. McRae Sun day night. .Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Evans and Paul McNeill Burns spent last week in South Carolina visit ing Myrtle and Crescent beaches. Mrs. Herman Thomas and daughters Sue and Barbara spent last week in Greensboro with Mr. and Mrs. E. B. McDonald and baby. The McDonalds accompan ied them home for a weekend stay. ' The Rev. and Mrs Thomas Wolfe and children and Mrs. Thurlow Evans visited 'in Bur lington recently, the Wolfes spending the time with relatives, and Mrs. Evans visiting her aunt, Mrs. A. K. Thompson. Mrs. Pope Lyon and daughter. Tucker, of Smithfield visited Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McMillan from Sunday until Tuesday night. Mr Lyon came with them and spent the day Sunday, and returned later to take them home. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Parker, Jr., and daughter, Barbara, visited Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Britt at Jack- son Springs Sunday. Mrs. W. R. Smith of Lillington arrived Monday to spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. R. G. Rosser. Kathy Wolfe, three-year-old daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Wolfe, will enter the Baptist Hospital in Winston- Salem today and on Saturday will undergo a foot operation. J. R. Ball, a student at the Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, will preach for the Rev. Mr. Wolfe at the Vass Baptist Church Sunday morning, but Mr. Wolfe expects to return from Winston-Salem in time to conduct the Sunday eve ning service. Mrs. W. T. Cox, Mrs. R. L. Wad dell, Carolyn and Billy Waddell, and M. B. Cox, all of Sanford, were recent callers in the home of Mrs. S. R. Smith,' stopping on their way home from Moore County Hospital, where they vis ited ClydeiCox of Raeford. Mr. Cox was hospitalized as a result of a back injury sustained some time ago. He was better at the latest report. Mr. and Mrs. Max Edwards are building a new home next to the Presbyterian Church at Lakeview. Mrs. J. B. Parker and little son, Joe, visited Airman Ijc and Mrs. W. R.-McGill and son, Robbie, at Sumter, S. C., recently. Mrs. Archie McNair and chil dren of Atlanta, Ga., who have been visiting the children’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. McNair and Mrs. O. M. Bullock, are spending this week with Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Painter qt F'uquay. Mr. and Mrs. Edward McNair and Ronnie of Charlotte visited the McNairs Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Morgan ,and sons, Bruce and David, returned Sunday after spending a 10-day vacation with Mrs. Morgan’s mother, Mrs. Annie Shankle, at AnsonvlUe. Guests of Commander and Mrs. Edwin L. Finch several days last week and over the weekend were Lt. Barney Green of the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., Commander and Mrs. Carl E. Schweinfurth and son Eddie of Arlington, Va., and Lt. and Mrs. T. G. Leach and daughter Linda Of Camp Lejeune. Before buying equipment to ir rigate tobacco, at least six acre inches of water for each acre of crop to be irrigated should be on hand or in sight. SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES, Inc. That You Plan NOW for the Improvements that you wish to make to your home Satisfaction \s what you really want in beerl. Day after day the supreme quality, of Schlitz gives more satisfaction to more people than any .other beer in the world. Ask for Schlitz, the greatest name in beer.’ V lii ■t ous tactics which lead to nerve fatigue, irritation and fatal errors of driver judgment.” Greater Cost Justified He concedes the cost for rights- of-way will be greater. But he reasons that the cost will be more than justified in long-range plan- ning. Without controlled access, he says, new roads rapidly become as cluttered and closed in upon by approaching roadside develop ment. Thus, bypasses built only a few years ago to relieve conges tion have bfecome as congested as the roads they replaced. And in some cases, .bypasses have beebme necessary' to bypass the bypass es. Controlled access, as Graham Just the kiss of the hops . . No bitterness. SX impoArnt ™tion roads'.sees it, wiU preserve highway lo- and streets will tie directly into cations and Protect the public the main routes and even thesevestment in highway rights-of- will be fed by way Of specially way. . * , engineered intersections. Grade Lack of access control, he teeSarations and “clover-legs,” stresses, can cut the carrying ca- Graham “edicts, will become as pacity of a highway by 50 per common "eis bypasses, and side line traffic will be handled by service roads. In most cases, he says, service roads will run parallel to main highways. A motorist wishing to find a tourist court or filling sta tion will be able to pull out of the main traffic stream into service road. .Small side streets and private drives will, where necessary, be set back on service roads. And service roads, Graham adds, will be provided for local use in towns and built-up areas Basic DifficuUy Graham says the “basic diffi culty” posed by controlled access is the “adverse reaction” of property owners, particularly cent in rural areas and up to 70 per cent in urban areas. 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