Minnesota Highways, April 1958

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VOL. 7, NO. 6
Minnesota Department of Highways, St. Paul
APRIL, 1958
N. W. Angle Road Is Expected To
Open Route to Big Vacation Area
Minnesota's "orphan" area, the
Northwest Angle, will be linked by
highway with the state's main section
for the first time if present negotiations between the governments of
Minnesota and the Canadian province
of Manitoba achieve fruition.
The project is seen, also, as the
likely forerunner of a highway which
may ultimately extend entirely around
Lake of the Woods to re-enter Minnesota
and thereby greatly stimulate travel
by Americans and Canadians to the
extensive vacation areas of Minnesota,
and the provinces of Manitoba and
Ontario.
(Continued  on  page  2)
The road proposed to be built between the Minnesota main area and
the state's Northwest Angle is shown by the cross ruled line, the proposed extension of the road northward to Falcon lake,  by a dotted line.
Major Traffic
Survey Begun
Minnesota's most extensive survey
of metropolitan area traffic flow is
getting underway. Requiring a staff of
more than 100 and costing $400,000,
the study will require six months for
obtaining of data and another year and
a half for analysis.
It will include all of Ramsey county
and parts of Hennepin, Carver, Anoka,
Washington, and Dakota counties. The
area covers all of the district which is
expected to be affected by urban development in the next 10 years.
The data will be obtaiied from about
50,000 persons in 16,000 homes selected
for sampling, from the operator of every
tenth truck on the motor registrations
list, and from drivers of all vehicles
passing the survey area cordon line on
all arteries during one given day.
From Where to Where
Principal information sought will be
the points of origin and destination of
the trip the driver is making at the time
if he is questioned on the road, or the
(Continued on page 10)
Our New Makeup
Beginning this month, Minnesota Highways appears in a new dress. It is printed
py an offset process, instead of by the
letterpress process, as previously.
nr&^offs?,1;,?roce!ls- the magazine is
printed from lithographed plates made by
photographing page layouts of typewritten
text and illustrations. In the letterpress
process, the magazine was printed from
metal type and engravings.
With the change in the format, effort
win be made to give greater emphasis to
nmPi0yr?e amities, particularly in the
field. Contributions of news and feature
items and pictures along this line will be
greatly appreciated. Also, material previously published in Highway Safety News
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