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1934. lhctivities Dn Roads And Highways

Buildings

Exfensive Road“ Making And Other

Policies Pursued By Provincial .-Department To Meet Require- ments Of Travelling Public.

The season of 1934, wns'an exceptio ‘ Public Works and Highways. widening and improving oflroads, the building and repairing of experiments with low-cost asphalt

Provincial Department of

bridges, gravel surfacing,

nal-Iy busy one for the The

pavements, the maintaining of the roads in general and the com-

mencement of the Tmns-Canadd Highway in this Province, were undertaken in an effort to meet the requir I public as well as to furnish employment i of the province where these necessary work

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The Power lllachlnery and other

road-making equipment at the dis- meal of the Department was put

to operation early in the Qrlng Ior conditioning the roads, with lie result that the good-roads per- iod began almost as soon as the snow had in the spring and by constant maintenance last- ed until the now-drifts blocked

' motor vehicle traffic in thmearly

litter.

Inthewockofroadconatrudlon I0 miles of road were widened and improved with the heavier power graders. Those roads at assent have widths of from 2B

80 feet. ‘Baa amount of prepar- atoryworkrcqlstredontbcseroads. rnanyofwhleh had navel-been rnachlnedbefordwasraducedcon- slderablybyuslsigthehesvytrac- fomfu-stllnplng andfllllrlgpur-

slble I1! the policy merit rh "P5808 Ilbldson machines by heavy "pow- ered Caterpillar-Type Tractors. Last alason there were only six Ilbrd- aon lkshlnss in» use. these being used mostly for lleht marine rur- pesee. -

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The nswfmad-makfng equipment or

pumhasagh“ replacements were a 3541,11,. l Calberpllar Tractor and \"<Adans Grader attached and a. o. {lawyer-Haney Road ‘Machine ‘used in Queers County; a If-ILP. Celtesplllar Tractor and Adams Grader attached and a No 8 Sawycr-lhssey Grader used cs County; also a M-EP. Cxrpdhr Tractor and Adams Grader attached used in 8mg’: County. A Pblr-Wlhoel-Drive Motor Truck. equipped with a road scrap- plough was purchased for general maintenance work. This truck was used for scraping pur- poses tbsoudlout the season also for ditching and general trenmor- tatlon and is now giving excellent service as s fast-moving snow plough in keeping the main roads leading to the City passable for vehicular traffic.

Among other roads widened and improved mention may be made of the St. Peter's Road from Char- lotlotown to Suflolk and from St. Andrew's to ‘Mt. Stewart, the Cav-

the Anderson County; the Grey's Road, Hazel Green Road, loyalist Road, Bruce Road. New Harmony Road and Grove Pine Road in King's County; and the Western Road from Bloomfield to Tignish and from the Allen Road to Wel- lington School, the O'l‘,oary Road. Canada Road, the Western Road at Harmony and Invemess, the Lot 10 Road, the Baltic and Base Lille Roads Lot ll, and the Newton Roads in Prince County. These and other roads have been well constructed, and are a welcome

addition to the miles of improved earth roads in the province.

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In the work of road construction it was found necessary to Ind! numerous low places on the vlrloul roads which could not be suffic- iently built up and drained with the Power Grade . A total length cf 10% miles of these fills averag- 24 feet in width and 15 deptli welie ;1‘o properly drain these 0W P B‘ quired n» slsslns by hand M 11% mllss of side ditches and tsp drains.

In addition. to these fills made with horses and carts nummul

surface and general which was manifest roads this season was largo- dus to tbs fact that the power split-log drags were

scraping at the

slum gcssbyendths calms,

curhlshvavsls v mu-

luncheon-unclean

ements of like travelling n the different sections s were carried out.

parent that our earth roads cannot withstand this traffic and that scum type of surface will have to be provided in the near future, if our road roquirements are to be mot. At the same time it is desir- able also to keep road expenditures

within reasonable limits.

Itwas

with those two thoughts in mind

thctthelip.

it. decided to ex-

periment. in the laying of low-cost

pavements.

Atlourlsaboutfitofamilesnd a Ihmptorl about 1-1/10 miles of rrted-frl-place sand-asphalt pave- ment were laid. This experiment was carried on under the direction of the Dnpcrlal Oil Company who have been experimenting with our

Island soil to 11nd suitable asphal-

tlc mixtures which would give us

the low-cost pavement desired.

(m the Lower Malpeque or North River Road 1-‘4 miles of plant- mlxed sand-asphalt pavement was laid as a. further experiment in this type of pcving- At Southport 9-1/5 miles of thh some type of pave- ment were laid. This work was done under contract by The Mod- em Paving Company. Should those

experiments prove satisfa felt that, with the use of

ctory it ls gravel

from our local pits and shore sand

where gravel is not sva obtain a

quite possible to aephaltio mixture

solve our paving problems.

‘him-Canada llghway

liable. it is low-cost which would

A! s. first 51M) towards Bnkiflg lip

this province by means of

with the mainland the Trans-Canada

way a. contract was awarded

B1811 in to the Warren Paving Company to

construct 1-06 miles of concrete pavement leading from the Town of Borden to Carleton Corner. This contract was completod in record

time. Also

the same Company was

given a contract to lay 3 miles of Pavement

asphaltlc Blast-base

continuing from where. tho Fcret. pavement ended. contract

miles of this completed. the ished in the spring

Charlottetown - a

About

con- 1-4/5 has been, balance to be fin-

. Continuing from the McIntyre Highway at

contract was.

awarded to The Standard Paving Company to lay 5 miles of similar

Black-base Pavement.

A: it was late in the season when this oqi-

tract got under way only l mile of

it was completed

However, -the ft

equipment is on hand to make as early. a. start in the spring as pos-

sible to complete the contract.

In the issue of fills paper cf Sat- a detailed

account, with eccomvlllyins P110150-

urday, December 8th,

graphs, of all

carrledon

pawl! "Dcratlons in the province this past

season. was given and we recom- mend our readers to see this issue. The most satisfactory part of these paving operations is that, with the

exception .of merit used,

Continuing low-lying

road which oiled. the season surf

was all taken from

province where no available it from other

used were the vii-l

l-Illl. Springton. Surrey, also the along the weehrn province. lot l0. High Bank, etc. The improvement

her and the Allen ford and lbflfltflald: Ibbsflsst.

in the vicinity

Peter's

Otcsry Road at Unionv

Road, flower Montague of Morrison's Pit Road and the mslc road at

gravel

at

toxin River.

the asphalt and ce- all of the material re- quired was obtslned locally, and with the exception of several key men only local labor was employed.

GIAVILLING

the work of gravelling sections of road. newly machined roads and newly made fills and rcsurfaolng strletohes of were previous grav- partmsnt this past sced a total of so miles of road with gravel. This gravel Island pits and beaches and in the sections of the was

was transported in Island pits. Tile chief sources of supply for the material Clmwsy, Birch Road and beaches at lot ‘f. coast of the Wood lslsndl.

of the road sur- face by this graveliing is clearly shown on such stretches as the Western Road Harmony and between Day's Road. ale, Knute- Vil-

of road at Portals. 001'-

. And Bridges

High Bdhk and Guernsey Cove.

Th" WK u! srmlllns by local labor was carried on in waning- tlun with the other road work under the supervision of the High- way Superintendents.

NIW BIIDGIS

T!" P0110? 0f 16111101113 worn out 0r broken-down wooden bridges with ones of concrete and steel wascontinuedsnrlssarcault 14 n" Ml lwidses and is concrete culverts were built at different places in the province.

The largut d these bridges was built om the Morel! River, this bruise luwlns a steel span with WWW ton 40o feet in length and approaches totalling in length 512 feet. The creosote pllesuaed in this brides varied from 4o to '15 1°" in 1008m- At the request of the residents in the vicinity of the

_ bflllse and of the travelling public

in general a new site was chosen 1°!‘ "118 1111080 to eliminate a. most dangerous double right-angle curve at the east end of the old bridge. Work was commenced at this bridge in mid-whiter and was completed in early summer. The efficiency and despatch with which this bridge was built is a credit to the builders and the province in general.

The Long Creek Brlqe, Mill River, Lot 5. was practically all re- built. The new bridge has a steel and concrete arch 60 feet in length and ,, “es totalling 00B feet. The rebuilding of these approaches required the laying of about 400 cords of pole crib-wor . The new span was placed in the crntre of the bridge in line with the channel of the river. The new bridge which is about 4 feet wider and 8 feet higher-then the old oneisousof the greater highway improvements in this section of the province.

At Big Pond in eastern King's County a 00 ft. steel span bridge was erected to ,‘ ce a former trestle-work bridge. The approaches of the bridge were widened out, a dangerous curve at the western alpproach being greatly improved.

Otlmr Steel Bridges

Other steel bridges were ‘erected at the following places: ~ nrguson‘: Creek. Faiwlew-B ft. span and-approaches built. Moore's, Milton-dc ft. span and approaches graded. .

Henry's, North Granville-M ft.

span. MoPheeb, Bcllevue-fi ft. marl. Acorn's Mill, Pcwnal-Ml ft.

$11011- Crooked Creek, Whestley River-

40 ft span. Black Ptnd. Eastern King's-do

ft naion built to present steel

"bridge and alrutm *

Yen's, Icxley River-Mr ft. Tupllnu, Murray Road-N ft.

span and approach rebuilt. Ballemw, Ennlore-fl ft. span. Mclntyrifs, New Arman-lo ft. wan and approach rebuilt. Concrete slab bridges supported on creosote piles were built at the

following places : Bannockb Road, Central

Queen's-lb ft. spon.

Clinton-ls ft. span.

South West, Poplar Glove-l: ft.‘

‘span and approaches rebuilt.

Reinforced concrete box culverts were built at the following phces: Cape Bear-size l2 ft. x 4 ft. x 24

Milliown Cross-size 12 ft. x 4 ft. x I4 ft. Union Road, Perth-else l2 ft. x 4 ft. x 24 ft.

Clarklnb, North Wiltshlre-sizc 3 ft.x 5 ft. x 35 ft.

Pollardb, Cape Wolfe-sire I ft. x itfft. x 2'1 ft.

Humphrey's. Kenslrlgton-slae 0 ft. v 4% ft. x I ft.

Glenwnod School-size 10 ft. x 0 ft. by M ft.

Dawson's, Augustine Cove-size 0 ft. x 3% it. x 3 ft.

Blanchsrds, Plusvllle-aise 8 ft. x 3% ft.x 25 ft.‘ .

Cousins’, Baltic ‘lot ll-slse l0 ft x 4% ft. x 20 ft.

Yeo’s, St. Chrysostome-siae 10 TILXS1LXHH.

Wklshu, llllerslie-slae 0 ft. x H6 ft. x 24 ft.

St. Raphael School-alas I ft. x 4 ft. x 24 ft.

Local Material Used

With the exception of the Morel! Bridge, which was built under the Unemployment Rolief Act, all of mess bridges were built by con- troct awarded tothe lowest tend- ercr. Local sand wand gravel were used entirely in the concrete work. The building of these bridges and the grading and railing cf same provided a great deal of unploy- meat in tbsse sections.

In addition to the above, 200 cor- numd iron ctlgvsrts‘ w placed in trsnt lac nso s to replace the smaller w varts. These varied in diameter has and in lsngth

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vmeeofspsnsuptofimfestin length. cxtvnsfve repairs were to 3'1. Sonia of the larger of these repair jobs are:

Steel Bridge, Hurray Harbor South-IN feet of polo work re- taining wall built at south end

bridge. Sourls West Bridge-AM It. con- clctc and stzel span surfaced with

whal.

Anderson's B1189. Western Queen's-work on the approaches

plefed.

Clifton Bridge-new pole work on the south approach.

Hench River-new pole work breastwork built to protect road- way.

Mt. Stewart Bridge-polo work on the es

est in southe .. Queen's County; had approaches faced with square timber and graded.

Hall's Bridge, Victoria-west ap- proach rebuilt with poles. Mclntyrek Bridge, Savage Har- bor-spprosches faced with stone. North River Brldge- ppm-caches faced with timber work and graded. Gsseolgne Bridge-pole work on "roaches.

Haldimand Bridge. Lot l5—one of the longest bridges in Prince County; eastern approach rebuilt with pole crib work and raised and graded, requiring the laying of over soo cords of poles.

Darnley Bridge, Lot ill-eastern approach 650 ft. in length widened, graded and faced with poles. McKlnnorrs Bridge. Cross Rivers lot l4-approaches totalling 10% chains in length rebuilt, requiring the laying of over 300 cords of poles; arch replanked and curve at end of bridge faced with poles and widened out.

Canadian Bridge. Fbxley River Lot 11—eouth approach rebuilt with pole work and graded.

Ross‘ Corner Bridge, North Be- deque - approaches faced with square timber and properly graded. A number of other large bridges such as Doyle's Tlgnlsh, Gilliam: Alberton, Golf's, Roxbury, Grand River Lot 10, South West lot 16, etc, which were damaged during the fall storms were repaired at considerable cost. ' About 20 of the steel bridges in the province were painted. ‘rhe spans of these ranged in length from 20 to 300 feet-

Repairs were also made lo 340 of the smaller bridges in the pro- vfnce.

HIGHWAY SAFETY

In order to eliminate as far as possible the element cf danger in driving over our highways the De- carries on such work as widening and banking dangerous curves. railing dang w, dumps and bridges. cutting bushes and rnnovlng other obstructions to the view at road intersections and Rall- way Crossings and the erefolng of Danger Signs -to warn motorists when curves, etc. Among the curves widened out or banked last season are: Simmons‘ Wilmot Valley, Bell's Corner Try- on, Seven Mlle Say (muroh Com- er, Port Kill Corner, Dunbar Road Corners, Indian Pt. Reed Curve. Mclnnls’ Whiter-ford, Aheam's Skinner's Pond, Curve at Glen William, Hughes‘ Sourls. etc.

‘rho view at the following and other places was greatly improved by removing bushes or other ob- structions: Doyle Road Glengarry. St. Eleanor’: Railway Crossing, Kelly Road, llknersld, etc. ' There was a total length of 11.300 lineal feet of dangerous dumps and bridges railed in different sections 9g the province. This work en- tailed the supplying of a lei-EB amount of material and the pro- vlding of considerable work in the different localities. There was also i200 lineal feet of Highway Guard Steel Rail placed oln the dump at Mt. Stewart.