Another Road To Detroit

Another Road to Detroit

To Strike Through the Township of Superior in a Bee Line.

A Flyer to Shorten Time of Travel

And Safety to be Secured by Greatly Lessening the Number of Curves.

The Road Projected by Well Known Street Railway Men Who Think That Ann Arbor is Destined to Become a Street  Railway Center and They Are Men Who Have Built Other Roads.

Another electric line to Ann Arbor has been projected and by some street railway promoters who have had considerable experience in building these lines and know a good thing when they see it. It is not given here as a fact that the line is to be built, for it is yet hardly more than a project but it is a project that is being most seriously considered by men who have the ability to carry out what they may determine upon. The projected road is an air line between Ann Arbor and Detroit. It passes to about half a mile south of Dixboro where it branches off into a straight line through Cherry hill to Detroit. The plan is to avoid all curves in the road and to get the right of way across the farms  rather than along the high ways, thus enabling the company to make much quicker time with less liability of accidents than over the present line. Said one of the chief promotors of the project : ' ' My idea is that Ann Arbor is destined to become an electric road center. If the other lines which have been projected come into Ann Arbor there is no doubt whatever but that we will put in this air line to Detroit. That is the main thing that is holding us back, to know what feeders for business we will have at Ann Arbor. If the road is put in, curves is the road which have caused so many of the accidents or derailing of cars on the Detroit. Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor line will be avoided. A straight line will be built and a flyer put on between Ann Arbor and Detroit, the only stops is Washtenaw being at Dixboro and Cherry Hill. The present line would be unable to compete with this on account of their curves. They could not make the time and could not run with the safety. ' '

The projected line passes throngh the fertile township of Superior, a township which is without a railroad. Passing as it would over its own right of way, there would be no question of its right to run cars for carrying milk and produce to Detroit. Making a bee line as it could after leaving a point a little south of Dixboro and thus avoiding all curves, it would soon strike a perfectly level country over which high speed for passenger cars could be safely made.

So far as the Argus has been  able to learn there is as yet no Ann Arbor man on the inside of this project or who has been in any way consulted about it. The men who are very seriously considering it are practical electrical railway men, who see a chance to build a good paying road. A meeting of these men will be held in a few days when something more definite may be larned.

The project certainly appears to one as a feasible one , which if carried out would bring Ann Arbor into much closer relations with Detroit than hitherto and it would also bring us much closer to the people of Superior, the majority of whom are now doing their trading in Ypsilanti.