ST. ALBANS STREETS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21961, 9 December 1936, Page 18

ST. ALBANS STREETS

TO THE EDITOB OR THE PRESS Sir, —I should like to draw the attention of the City Council to the state of certain roads in St. Albans. Some weeks ago the City Council men appeared on the scene in Cranford, Canon, Bishop, and other streets, strewed these roads with large, coarse metal on a sea of tar; then, for the most part, “folded their tents like the Arabs and silently stole away.” Save

for the subsequent action of a steam roller down the middle of some, but not all of these streets, they are still in the same condition to this day. It is practically impossible to ride a bicycle on this loose, coarse metal; walking is unpleasant and the surface spells ruination to car tyres. Now the position for cyclists is further aggravated by the hot sunshine liquefying the tar. which lies in patches between the lumps of road metal. At least three women of my acquaintance have had their clothes and stockings spattered with tar whilst riding on these roads, and there should. I consider, be some compensation claimable. In a recent court case I noticed the magistrate commented on the growing practice of riding bicycles on the

pavements. I suggest that if he took a “bike hike” around St. Albans he would know the reason why.—Yours, etc., FINISH THE JOB. December 8, 1936.