LIFTING OF TRAM TRACKS
RAILS LAID IN CONCRETE ■' s TO BE COVERED S| Except in the length of Colomba street between'Hereford street and Moorhouse avenue, tram rails Isid in' ' concrete will be left in the roads His W suggestion by the works committee' • was accepted by the City Council last . evening. . • igfi "It seems that the cost of patcMxg is a fair charge against the Tranmorf « ; Board," reported the committee. w best way would be for the council tocovet the cost. The amount to be paid would vary and would have to,be, ■ fixed by negotiation. Preliminary mb* I missions have been held With '=W. ' . board's officers and it seems thM , suggestions are acceptable to them?" If the suggestions were appro® ■ the council should have a rd» , way which would be saUsfacteryß . most cases, said the report, exMrt; ' where the concrete slab Ss ' ■ rails might fail under heavy trade. The work of covering the rails caitM , out in Oxford terrace showed ttat , where the track was in good CM- ; d * tlo " a satisfactory road wffih i 6h SE ld Bprv e for some yean reiraM. The main lengths of tracks laid la sleepers which will have to be w : moved are in Riccarton avmm Papanui road (Leinster rosd-Htv-thorn street), Cathedral square» Colombo street (Armagh ford street), from Southey street W l ' the city boundary, and in MoorhdM ' avenue east of Colombo street
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 10
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