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f # Assails 'Murder Speed' On Queen ElizabethW R C y Enlargement of the Ontario Pro-- * vincial Police Highway Traffic Pat-- rol "in the very near future," was forecast last night by Attorney--Gen-- eral Conant in general Legislature * discussion on what Leopold Mac-- aulay, former Minister of Highways, described the "murder speed" on Queen Elizabeth Highway. The debate arose from Highway Traffic Act amendments which make lllegal driving at night with parking lights, and authorizes cities, towns and villages to pass by--laws restrict-- ing sections of their highways to speed limits between fifteen and thirty miles. "Have you anything in mind to cut down the murder speed rate on the four--lane highway betwaeen hore and Niagara Falls?" asked Mr. Mac-- aulay (Con., South York). Me said he viewed an increasing accident rate with alarm--a rate, s which he said, has increased despite the expenditure on shrubs, trees and grade separation. "We've got to start over again in | safety campaigns. Apparently the; expenditure of money alone in | building highways or running fancy ' ads in the newspapers is not enough. | Personally, I feel unsafe driving on that highway. 1 seem to be going backwards the way the cars pass me and then I look at the speedometer and I am driving 50 or 55 and they must be doing 80 or 90." ' HMighway Minister McQuesten said | he did not believe the accident rate | was out of line with the traffic vol-- | ume. A peak of 36,000 was counted on the Queen Elizabeth Way last year and an average summer day was rated at 16,000 cars. "It is quite Huge Increase apparent that people have got l(; learn how to drive on this type o highway, but so far as excessive In power Seen % rate of speed is concerned, I think In the Legislature yesterday the member is exaggerating consid-- Premior f * erably when he speaks of rates of remier Hepburn read and 80 and 90 miles per hour," he said. tabled a letter from Dr. T. H. In suggesting an expansion in the Hogg, chairman of the @Qniario Patrol force was required, Mr. Con-- Hydro--Electric Commission, in ant said highways have been ex-- which it was «t * panded considerably faster than has was stated that the the number of patrol men. power resources of the com-- W. J. Stewart (Con., Parkdale), mission next December would suzzested the Department as a be 300,000 horsepower in excess safety measure should re--examine of the dem; imars a and for primary drivers. * power at the end of December, 1940, The Prime Minister stated that he was tabling the letter f to strengthen the denial that Ontario faced a power shortage. Last week he presented a re-- port from Chief Engineer John Dibblee, who also showed that _ there is no danger of a power shortage in the Province.