Gravel On Roads
Sir, —Would the city council please explain its curious habit of scattering loose gravel on so-called tar-sealed roads? Is it so that passing cars will fling the gravel on to the already untidy and uneven footpaths? Or is it for the motorist to have fun trying to score a goal with a flying pebble on a fellowdriver’s car as he scorches through the drifts? Or is it perhaps to entice the pedestrian to sprain his ankle as he negotiates the piled-up gravel in the centre of the corner crossing? Have council members never seen a child cyclist skid at these corner hazards? It needs only a car following fast for that to become a skid of death.—Yours, etc., CLYDE ROAD VICTIM.
May 1, 1963. [The chairman of the Waimairi County Council (Mr J. I. Colligan) said: “The correspondent presumably refers to the section of Clyde road between Riccarton road and Kirkwood avenue, which is a boundary road between Waimairi County and Riccarton Bbrough. The seal on this section of the road was widened to the channel during the last sealing season. Immediately following this sealing, surplus chip was cleaned f-om the channels and the additional chip on the road
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30126, 9 May 1963, Page 3
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