ROADS AND SEWER WORKS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 18

ROADS AND SEWER WORKS

Sir, —Why is the sewer contracting firm allowed by the Drainage Board to Commandeer and close roads (not singly, but by the quarter-dozen) without any redress? "At the moment portions of North Avon road, North parade, and Randall street are closed to traffic, and all diverted traffic to Marshland has to use Averill street, where the Government has threequarters of the width of the road opened for a drain to the new high school. Those of us with children using these streets daily going to school are most apprehensive for their safety, and I am sure that a visit to the area by the engineer or whoever is the ultimate head would certainly shock him. Will he inspect it and en-

sure some degree of consideration for the local residents from now on?— Yours, etc., \ DRAINAGE BORED. May 31, 1956. [“When major works such as the northern relief sewer are under construction, there must be some dislocation of traffic,” said the chief engineer to the Christchurch Drainage Board (Mr E. F. Scott), to whom this letter was referred. “The contractors are required to provide facilities for local residents and tradespeople. Every consideration is given to public safety as far as the nature of the construction work permits.”]