ROAD INSPECTION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19668, 11 July 1929, Page 11

ROAD INSPECTION.

♦- IMPROVEMENTS TO FIFIELD TERRACE. Three members of the St. Martins Burgesses' Association, in company with Cr. F, R. Cooke, chairman of the Works Committee of the City Council, »nd Mr A. R. Galbraith, City Engineer, taado an inspection of Fifield terrace, St Martins, from Wilson's road to the footbridge at St. Martins ayenae yesterday morning. Among the suggestions of the members of the Association wera cutting back of the trees on the bank of the river, the foliago of which •pread over the road, the rounding off •f the east side of th- corner of EnMi's road and Fifield terrace, and the Blteing of a protective wall on the oaak of the river opposito Elisor's road m a safety measure for motorists who might not know the closeness of the fiver. It waa also suggested that certain trees on the river bank should be wt out. Mr Galbraith promised to hring under the notico of the Post and ; Telegraph Department the fact that the ! **legTaph pole at trie corner of Locarno *trwt and Fifield terrace was fully sis feet out from the footpath and a dani «W to motorists rounding this corner. t *Y Cooke promised to place the suggestions of the Burgesses' Association , rof ore the Works Committee. The footbridge opposite St. M tins avenue, a r T *ry old but stout structure, was also I £lkukW. Mr C. V. Harvey, president [ <■' the tit. Martins Burgesses' AssociaI tton, remarked that several members of I l*** Opawa and St. Martins Burgesses' I Awociations were desirous of having I '&« footbridge replaced by a traffic I bridge, and whicti they were endeavour--1 *»g to bring before the notice of the 1 City Council.