IMPROVING SYDNEY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 16 March 1925, Page 10

IMPROVING SYDNEY.

EVER-GROWING TRAFf$| MARTIN PLACE EXTENSION . (?BOH OVE OTO SYDNEY, JiarthS, ; Of the many problems associated Sydney's growing traffie none hasj&jj rise to more debate and more because of the interests involve*], tb* that of the extension of Martin Aft in the heart of the city. Ther«L towering Post Office clock tho ever-speeding hour s day and night, there it was through the feverish and anxioaa jK of the war that all the big war "flmjf; and carnivals had their hcadqtun®; until there was hardly a day SStfl old Martiu place, with its pjgini wheeling and circling about Office, was not gaily bedecked in crs and ribbons and crowded with of all the rainbow's colours. Tk|3S tion was whether Margin place AwS be extended right through talfral quarie street, and thus give nexion with widest north and'wrag thoroughfare in the city, at a about £680,000, or whether it be extended only to Elizabeth tftliSHß which runs parallel with Maoqni'W street, at an outlay of about Ordinarily, the new GovernmeHty§|'M ings Bank would have encroMMjw<ul the extended street—this, in been one of the obstacles to an decision in, the matter —but' .tflfP&ftl ments, it is understood, have l whereby the bank can still be bflSK* I part of its new site, and altow.faßfcl for the extended street. Council has now definitely extend Martin place right Macquarie street. This the city at one of its busiest PtoMklß will, incidentally, provide a setting, facing the end of the WfMHaB tin place for a new public hosrij|ißM|B old Sydney Hospital, one of fimg Macquarie's bhildings, has toVjjfie&B placed by something bigger; it gUMMj open up the big Outer Doinaii|,lj|HMjß| relieve traffic when tho railway station is opened. : of the extension regard it fiscation rather .ts|lt|jHßNSj utilitarian value; but the otWWB; opinion is that it is a interests of the growing For four years at least of the extension of been under consideration.^ Privy Council was called unravel the tangled dispute -iS the question gave rise. cision of the Council to. street through to Ma6quMj«;^M^H^B headquarters of the leading, the seat of Parliament,. homo of the RoyaJ Mint Hospital, was inhibited of the Privy Council, TMsHm was not that the Council to resume land for the pntMKMsJHFw extension, but that i£ badjj resume additional neig&MMHIHjP& I for purposes other than I namely, to sell again or so obtain any benefit jrlMt.J| "MB! 1 1 accrue to adjacent I tension. The right of the actual extension itaqg | questioned. Even extend Martin place through' W-"sßi Ij quarie street had not befln.cM^Hj^^W new Labour Lord Mayor (AWSiKfrßj Stokes), who has takea an and active stand in the _ would inevitably ■ have to be the future, and ..sit, a rainoM . M<WjW| the city, with increased l»a heavier claims for the more valuable bnaness lnteiwtaL^j^^B value even to-day' of 1 property^ neighbourhood is shown by W^n^Hl that an hotel, within Martin placer bought only ago for £40,000, changed haate^BP other day for £95,000, fnMHK from the esthetic standpoint, vide Sydney with an thoroughfare, opening op, commanding, vista street right throngh to There is an indefinable ' Sydney's old nano* but replanning is an oftTWM if the city is not to bo WHH its ever-growing traffic. . figffgK