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March 7, 1955
The Augusta Courier
Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia
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Georgia's repeal of toll road authority in recent years has allowed Alabama to pursue a super toll highway from Chicago to Miami, bypassing Georgia and potentially costing it millions in tourist revenue. Alabama legislators are actively lobbying in Indiana and Florida.
Merged-components note: Continuation of the article on the toll highway bypassing Georgia, indicated by '(Continued on Page 3)' and matching title.
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Alabama Bids For Super Toll Highway To Be Built From Chicago to Miami
Georgia Legislature Repealed Act Recently Calculated To Cost Georgians Millions
Once again, the State of Georgia is failing in its responsibility to its people.
The State Government is about to allow a super toll road to be built between Chicago and Miami which will by-pass the State of Georgia.
In 1954, Governor Talmadge and his leaders asked the Legislature to pass a toll road authority to put Georgia in a position to bid for the super highway.
The past Legislature repealed the toll road authority and Georgia stands without any chance whatsoever to participate in this great artery of traffic.
The original plan was to build a great super highway going over or under all the other highways surrounding the towns and cities and carry the traffic of the midwest into Florida and into Miami.
It was proposed that the road be constructed from Chicago into Indiana and Kentucky to Nashville, Chattanooga and then over four hundred miles through the width and breadth of the State of Georgia to hit the Florida line.
The Legislature in a farsighted move created an authority to work with this movement and pull the road through Georgia.
As soon as the Legislature repealed the toll road authority and announced to the world that Georgia would not participate in any toll road, the Governor of the State of Alabama got busy.
Recently ten members of the Legislature went to Evansville, Indiana, and held a great meeting for the purpose of diverting the road out of Georgia through Alabama.
This toll road eventually will be continuous from Chicago to Miami and it will get the great bulk of the through traffic which will be able to travel at high speeds with safety all the way from Chicago to Miami.
Alabama is determined to bring the road from Nashville, Tennessee, down into Alabama and into Florida in that direction so as to eliminate the State of Georgia.
Both Governor Folsom and the Legislature are ready to travel and the people in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee are welcoming the efforts of the people of Alabama.
Georgia is skating on thin ice.
A free way will not be able to compete with the toll road. In the first place, it will not be a part of this gigantic scheme to reach from Miami to Chicago.
In the second place, a free way will be designed to serve the local towns and cities and will not take care of through traffic. A toll road is desired in order to enable long distance traffic to move from one area to another without being slowed
(Continued on Page 3)
Georgia Legislature Repealed Act Recently Calculated To Cost Georgians Millions
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down by the traffic in each community.
The Atlanta Journal recently described the dangers facing the State of Georgia and in an editorial says:
"GEORGIA IS GETTING full warning that Alabama plans to take even more of the tourist trade travel away from Georgia. It will cost Georgia millions of dollars.
"The Alabama plan is obvious. Tourists follow good roads. Alabama will build such roads.
"Streams of automobiles continuously flow back and forth between the Midwest and Florida. In these cars are tourists, their pockets lined with money. They will spend it along the route they travel.
"The most direct route from the Midwest to Florida is through Tennessee and Georgia. But people don't mind driving extra miles on better roads.
"Alabama's governor and its Legislature are smart enough to know this. They intend to bend the tourist travel out of the direct route, leading it through Alabama and causing it to by-pass Georgia.
"At the present moment, 10 members of the Alabama Legislature are attending a conference in Evansville, Ind. Development of a great toll road, stretching from the Midwest to Florida, is one subject of the conference. The legislators are in Evansville to see that the road passes through Alabama.
"On March 4 these same Alabama legislators will be in Florida for another conference about the toll road. They will meet with the governor of Florida and begin planning the road from the southern end.
"While this is going on, while Alabama is making arrangements to take the tourist trade, what happened in Georgia?
Georgia's governor and Georgia's Legislature abolished the Toll Road Authority, thereby making it easier for Alabama to get the tourists.
"Does anybody think that this great toll highway will be built toward Georgia when it can't continue on through Georgia? Does anybody think that the highway will lead the tourists to the borders of Georgia, then dump them onto the narrow, twisting, bumpy roads of this state?"
Georgia Legislature Repealed Act Recently Calculated To Cost Georgians Millions
Once again, the State of Georgia is failing in its responsibility to its people.
The State Government is about to allow a super toll road to be built between Chicago and Miami which will by-pass the State of Georgia.
In 1954, Governor Talmadge and his leaders asked the Legislature to pass a toll road authority to put Georgia in a position to bid for the super highway.
The past Legislature repealed the toll road authority and Georgia stands without any chance whatsoever to participate in this great artery of traffic.
The original plan was to build a great super highway going over or under all the other highways surrounding the towns and cities and carry the traffic of the midwest into Florida and into Miami.
It was proposed that the road be constructed from Chicago into Indiana and Kentucky to Nashville, Chattanooga and then over four hundred miles through the width and breadth of the State of Georgia to hit the Florida line.
The Legislature in a farsighted move created an authority to work with this movement and pull the road through Georgia.
As soon as the Legislature repealed the toll road authority and announced to the world that Georgia would not participate in any toll road, the Governor of the State of Alabama got busy.
Recently ten members of the Legislature went to Evansville, Indiana, and held a great meeting for the purpose of diverting the road out of Georgia through Alabama.
This toll road eventually will be continuous from Chicago to Miami and it will get the great bulk of the through traffic which will be able to travel at high speeds with safety all the way from Chicago to Miami.
Alabama is determined to bring the road from Nashville, Tennessee, down into Alabama and into Florida in that direction so as to eliminate the State of Georgia.
Both Governor Folsom and the Legislature are ready to travel and the people in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee are welcoming the efforts of the people of Alabama.
Georgia is skating on thin ice.
A free way will not be able to compete with the toll road. In the first place, it will not be a part of this gigantic scheme to reach from Miami to Chicago.
In the second place, a free way will be designed to serve the local towns and cities and will not take care of through traffic. A toll road is desired in order to enable long distance traffic to move from one area to another without being slowed
(Continued on Page 3)
Georgia Legislature Repealed Act Recently Calculated To Cost Georgians Millions
(Continued from Page 1)
down by the traffic in each community.
The Atlanta Journal recently described the dangers facing the State of Georgia and in an editorial says:
"GEORGIA IS GETTING full warning that Alabama plans to take even more of the tourist trade travel away from Georgia. It will cost Georgia millions of dollars.
"The Alabama plan is obvious. Tourists follow good roads. Alabama will build such roads.
"Streams of automobiles continuously flow back and forth between the Midwest and Florida. In these cars are tourists, their pockets lined with money. They will spend it along the route they travel.
"The most direct route from the Midwest to Florida is through Tennessee and Georgia. But people don't mind driving extra miles on better roads.
"Alabama's governor and its Legislature are smart enough to know this. They intend to bend the tourist travel out of the direct route, leading it through Alabama and causing it to by-pass Georgia.
"At the present moment, 10 members of the Alabama Legislature are attending a conference in Evansville, Ind. Development of a great toll road, stretching from the Midwest to Florida, is one subject of the conference. The legislators are in Evansville to see that the road passes through Alabama.
"On March 4 these same Alabama legislators will be in Florida for another conference about the toll road. They will meet with the governor of Florida and begin planning the road from the southern end.
"While this is going on, while Alabama is making arrangements to take the tourist trade, what happened in Georgia?
Georgia's governor and Georgia's Legislature abolished the Toll Road Authority, thereby making it easier for Alabama to get the tourists.
"Does anybody think that this great toll highway will be built toward Georgia when it can't continue on through Georgia? Does anybody think that the highway will lead the tourists to the borders of Georgia, then dump them onto the narrow, twisting, bumpy roads of this state?"
What sub-type of article is it?
Infrastructure
Politics
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Toll Highway
Chicago To Miami
Georgia Legislature
Alabama Bid
Tourist Trade
Toll Road Authority
What entities or persons were involved?
Governor Talmadge
Governor Folsom
Where did it happen?
Georgia
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Georgia
Event Date
1954; Recently; March 4
Key Persons
Governor Talmadge
Governor Folsom
Outcome
georgia stands without chance to participate in the super toll highway from chicago to miami, which will bypass georgia and cost georgians millions in tourist trade.
Event Details
The Georgia Legislature repealed the toll road authority, preventing participation in a proposed super toll highway from Chicago to Miami through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. Alabama is actively bidding to route the highway through its state instead, with legislators attending conferences in Evansville, Indiana, and planning another in Florida on March 4.