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EF REEREST to motorists to the North Shore is 
the proposed widening of Bridge St., Salem. For 
some time past such a step has been planned, but on 
account of the expense has been opposed by various 
factions of Salem’s heaviest tax-payers, who did not 
welcome any increased rate in the taxes, which might 
result from the proposed Bridge St. improvement. Now, 
however, plans are well under way to accomplish the 
desire of the Salem Board of Trade and other affiliated 
civic bodies of the city who believe that it will be a 
move in the right direction to improve the main 
thoroughfare to the North Shore. At present Salem 
presents the only unattractive roads in the trip from 
Boston to the shore resorts. 
After entering Salem a mile of good road is en- 
countered down Lafayette St., then making devious 
turns the motorist skirts Salem Common and enters 
Bridge St., a granite paved thoroughfare. The plans 
which have now been generally approved by the interest- 
ed parties in Salem eall for a 70-foot roadway from 
Pleasant St., not far from Salem Common, to Beverly 
bridge, the latter in itself an eyesore and a rather dan- 
gerous thoroughfare. It is barely possible that the street 
will be widened eventually to 90 feet, although the plans 
at present call for but 70 feet between curbings. There 
has been the usual amount of discussion of details, 
important and otherwise, by parties interested, and 
discussion has arisen as to whether trolley and electric 
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poles, with those of the telephone company, should be 
placed in the middle of the thoroughfare. 
As yet there has been no talk regarding the im- 
provement of Beverly bridge in connection with the 
widening and it is probable that there will be no new 
bridge at this point for a number of years. Several 
hearings have been held on the Bridge St. widening, 
however. This improvement will not come for two 
years, at the earliest. No appropriation has yet been 
made by city or county. The estimated cost is close 
to $150,000. 
N CONJUNCTION with the controversy over Bridge 
e St., Salem, as the main thoroughfare through the 
Witch City to the North Shore, it is interesting to 
note that the old Salem turnpike which enters Lynn 
at Western Ave., has been accepted as a state road. 
It is expected that this road will be repaired by the 
state shortly and this will mean an additional thorough- 
fare to Boston, optional with motorists. Now that the 
read over the marshes in Lynn and Revere has also 
been made a state road, this combination will probably 
prove popular with motorists who wish to reach Boston 
by the shorest route, as it will be a stright road, with 
no turns until the boulevard is encountered in Revere 
near the Chelsea line. As motor vehicles are prohibit- 
ed from using the boulevard at the Revere Beach reser- 
vation on Sundays and ete the route cited here 
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