OUR ROADS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12933, 12 October 1907, Page 10

OUR ROADS.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PHKSS." R Sir.—Those -who advocated the amal- m a mat ion of the various boroughs and of 'hristchurch into one large city dis- JJ rict : promised all sort* of improve- m icnte and economies. Our rates have ji icrpa«>d, our roads arid etreete were r r ever in a *-orj» coidition, and I neo U: ttle chance of improvement under p , management. It nroet havo f o e*«n a shock to some to Icern that the W( ouncil oven contemplated borrmnnp to > larfio a sum aa £80.000 to make and nproro our roadtravs. Ip past years irv Ti-rro fairlj maintained; it in ily during th« last threo /ears, and * articularly tbis year, that they havo ro >tome so bad. It appears to mo that r,J iis state is duo to the trant of a com- a * [?t*»nt road maker. It would ttilly f^ •i upy such* a person to «mporvisf tlii; ■pair.<- of our htrc(*ts unci i-ou<]<: lli« IJI .:i ii- inimoiw, it require* n ioa-3

maker to bo constantly ting the workmen and carryinj SMlffl constant inspection so a* to fects repaired quickly. | n s*&&Ms& about for many * seen tbe neod of this j.J '• "*™ *'Pfi doubt thai our City Surveyor is « ly qtialihod surveyor, I>nt ho time to <1o the Work I such a pnrpoep n prnctirnl road » nctKlcd who wonld placed minor thp orders of ■♦Iμ.- #v^. i; '"-'V$ Surveyor, hut would be « eidorablo latitude to net oITS judgment. II is no uncommon tSfl 1 to be nearly pitched out ol'-bSEP^ 1 vchide, airing to tho lurge hollows in mnny streets. Our trS#ft ways, in rcspoct to the M»d\r«« badly made—it was i n | 9e wideavour to mivo tho paving. The wn-tchod Httenqn'to a wnglo lino of stones on ench'Sp: of tho rails is a failure. I liave vl»it*S >:? - ' many countries, but hnvo never eewr tranway roads wnstructed in auch * manner as those of Christcburch. '- ridpy runninK down tlie. centre of street should not lu> theiv; it U'|4fti source of srent inconvenience, to orii i ; ' nary traffic. The roadwny along»jd# * the rails is not so well kept as when tho tramways were priratek iowned. In a word, the conditiontrftfcr streets is a disgrace to the nnthoritiw responsible for their maintenuactA ' ' I Yours, etc., ' ' ' ' A. F. J. MICKUSi'" 243 Armagh Btreet W. -- v ; —— ' i