that Maryland, under the leadership of the Commission I have selected,
will make great strides toward the realization of the dream we all have—

a safe and adequate system of highways in our State.

REMARKS, DEDICATION OF HARRISBURG-
BALTIMORE EXPRESSWAY

October 28, 1959

This is a historic moment for the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania
and I want to thank the Chambers of Commerce for extending me the
privilege of speaking here this morning.

Before I say anything else, I would like to congratulate the Baltimore
Association of Commerce and the Chambers of Commerce of York and
Harrisburg for sponsoring this good will trade tour.... It has been a
splendid day so far and I am sure that the entire tour will be interesting
and beneficial to those of us who are privileged to be present.

Not 500 feet from here is the Mason-Dixon Line, a horizontal line
which divides the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. We, however,
are standing on a vertical line, a brilliant ribbon of pavement that
intersects the Mason-Dixon Line at right angles. This vertical line, this
magnificent expressway, serves a purpose diametrically opposite to that
of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Baltimore-Harrisburg Expressway joins
rather than separates, Maryland and Pennsylvania. It brings together
the people of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the people
of Maryland. The Baltimore-Harrisburg Expressway, a link in the great
interstate system of highways will generate economic and social inter-
course between the people of the two states. In addition, the Expressway
represents a cooperative effort in highway building between the two
states.

As all of you, here today are aware, it was twelve years ago almost to
the day that the three Chambers of Commerce held another good will
trade tour. I was not on that tour, but I am sure some of you were. The
vehicles on that tour traveled a road of different quality. It was a wind-
ing road, built in the days when the prime consideration of a highway
was simply to get the farmer out of the mud. As the years passed, the
Old York Road, for example, became unsafe for modern day travel.
In Harrisburg, on the evening of October 27, 1947, at the conclusion
of that good will trade tour, two governors spoke—Governor William

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