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Jan 1935
Super-Highways
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 100, Issue 1
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As far as is known from the records, the term, “super-highway,” was coined by Daniel L. Turner, M. Am. Soc. C. E., to describe a single-level, all-purpose highway designed to provide an exclusive right of way for rail transit in combination with superior facilities for movement of heavy-volume motor traffic created in metropolitan areas.
The design was applied by Mr. Turner as the keynote of his plan for a coordinated thoroughfare system within the developed section of Detroit, Mich., and its expansion into a regional plan for the Metropolitan Area, later adopted as the Master Plan for Detroit and the three counties affected.
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© 1935 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1935
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J. P. Hallihan, M.ASCE
Chf. Engr., Rapid Transit Comm., Detroit, Mich.
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