The Department of Highways shall as soon as possible after the effective date of this act make surveys, estimates of costs and plans for the construction of a mountain ridge road or parkway over the Pocono Mountains through, or bordering, or accessible to, the counties of Monroe, Northampton, Carbon, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wayne and Pike from a point at or near Delaware Water Gap in Monroe County to a point at or near Milford in Pike County, a distance of about seventy miles, to be known as the “Pocono Mountain Memorial Parkway” and shall be dedicated as a memorial to the sons and daughters of Pennsylvania who served in World Wars I and II.