TARRED ROADS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14658, 6 May 1913, Page 3

TARRED ROADS.

TO TH* EIHTOR O*- THE CRESS."" | S'.r,--As an instance of the wide gat-a being the way to elv-strueucn, or on or, D.-. ihaokcr nas aiatea i-o tlio ekrci/ors of Linwu>d. '•Vie have ad agreed t::at tarred macadam for reads, is tiie best course to pursue." Now, in opposition to ti.7: id;*a, I bog vo repeat a statement made by a p.evious writur ou the subject, wnich was tnis: 'lhe system o: street repairs in ChrL-t----ciuirch was like "taking tho studs from a building anu putting on a beautiful t.icrl roof."' This is. exactly what is going on at present in Manchester st-rcc-c, as is proved already. , On Papanui road, 1 undirsta-id, a roaJ-e iinks the ro.id, and after i; passes the road recovers again. This proves tho tearing up cf thc street gives tho wet free accor.s to tho clay underneath, which is turned into a quagmire, and tho consequence is that ron<lengines are now forbidden on the flimsy, newly-covered streets of tarred macadam. Ibe ieve from the Clock Tower north in Manchester stiect that, a road-ingine would do ihe street good, ' nnd not injure it in the least, in ii-s present state. For all the street requires to make a good permanent so*id road is to run a t.<v.ivy roller to put down projerting stonrs, then simply patch it with fine b oken tirrod maca- , dam, and the result would ho no ; danger or cause for alarm if a roadengine entered i:s sacred precincts.— Yours, etc, W. FrTZHENRY. May oth.