12 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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May 7,.1915 
Motoring through the 
Woods at Manchester. 
Of Interest to Motorists. 
NORTH SHORE motorists driving to and from Boston 
and who wish to keep within a reasonable running 
time should avoid the newly rebuilt state road over High- 
land avenue from Salem to Floating bridge in Lynn. 
Although this stretch of highway has been built at a cost 
of $25,000 and is ‘well laid out and constructed, it is not 
intended for extensive motor traffic or as a through route 
from the North Shore to Boston and beyond. This may 
be a surprise to some motorists who have thought this 
road was to be an additional one to the shore road 
which comes through Medford, Everett, Revere, Lynn 
and along the shore through Swampscott and on down 
to Beverly. On the other hand, the Highland avenue 
road is designed primarily to accommodate heavy traffic 
of non-motorized vehicles between Salem and_ Boston. 
Many a motorist coming from the North Shore has had, 
perhaps, the unpleasant experience of nearly colliding 
with a wagon laden with garden truck if he has strayed 
off the shore boulevard and finds himself on the marsh 
road from Lynn to Revere and Boston. Since the many 
accidents on the Newburyport turnpike from farm 
wagons colliding with automobiles it has been deemed 
advisable to have some road which would be free of 
motors and this old Salem turnpike has been refurbished 
with a thorough repairing with this object in view. The 
only motor route from Boston to the shore is as form- 
erly, along the state boulevard. 
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With the fact that the improvement of Walnut and 
Elm streets in Salem, near Salem Common, will not be 
a reality for the present summer, at least, the same 
bothersome cffort of mortorists getting through Salem 
will be experienced. | One real improvement has been 
made on Bridge street, Salem, immediately adjacent to 
the Beverly bridge, in cutting down several large elm 
trees which have always been a source of danger to traf- 
fic because of their projecting out into the street. They 
have been replaced with small maple trees. Althouga 
the removal of the great elms will make this thorough- 
fare an uncomfortably warm one, it is still an improve- 
ment. 
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Trafthe regulations in Beverly and Salem will be 
practically the same this summer as last year. The sys- 
tem of “Bunker Hill white posts” will be in vogue in 
the Garden City and in Salem, traffic officers will be 
maintained in the same places. In Salem there will be 
an officer at Elm street, just beyond the Salem Common 
going into Boston; another at the corner of Essex and 
St. Peter streets and a third a hundred feet beyond 
at the corner of. Essex and Central streets. Motorists 
early in the season should look for two motorcycle of- 
ficers on Lafayette street in Salem, who are on the 
watch for overspeeding. 
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Motorists are appreciating the great improvement in 
Swampscott on the new addition to the boulevard on 
Humphrey street from Monument square to Puritan 
road. The street is 70 feet wide and is block-paved, the 
space between the double car tracks being faced with 
brick. From a point where the boulevard runs from 
Puritan road to the trolley turnout for about 600 yards 
the road has been paved with a coating of cement. 
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Puritan road, Swampscott, is closed temporarily 
while extensive repairs are being made to this motor 
thoroughfare. 
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The Manchester roads will be torn up durine the 
early summer—between now and the first of July— 
while the main roadway between Manchester and Glou- 
cester is being rebuilt, Some two miles is being built 
