HEAVY TRAFFIC.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18149, 12 August 1924, Page 11

HEAVY TRAFFIC.

ROAD< construction; : TRIALS. . ; ; Trials .of different. types of, road construction..to. .liear, .licay.y..»traffic, are being, made by tho ,City. Council. • The'- Works- Committee reported ■= to the Council last night that the- portion of Colombo - street lying between MooihoUso aVenue and, . tlie railway' 'Tiad* been a continual: source of trouble and- expense .to the Council, having to be> continually renewed, to .meet the demands of-'the heavy traffic. To;over r cdirie' thUt 'a piftco of the roadway ivaS -laid down m tarred macadarn, reinforced - wrt.il steel - fab'rio. Hie . road which-was'laid down over six months agoy-had- so far-stood' remarkably well;' carrying, .as it did ( .the exceptionally -hcayy .traffic, from, the railway yards, and the committee recommended ; that •^^••(Crt3»ervßide*of''.the-:-Bame -- 88ctibn: ot tKe street bo / treated ..in. .similar manner. -. % - 'Th& Work 3 Committee also statfed that •' "Waltham rotfd, l>etwecn Moorhoufee avenue and the. railway , line was another section of roadway which had in the past cost 1 a great deal for upkeep, and it 'was suggested,' with a view • to ascertaining the relative adyabtagcs of. reinforced .asphalt as ag&inst concrete, that two chains of that "road be iaid t in concrete, and the I balance in teiarforoed asphaft.'as was. done in' Colombo street. That work would-be-done out of- ordinary main-, tenance vote. / ( . ' ■'>

.-.AuUionty- was to . carry 6at the proposed constructions..