STREET WIDENING NEEDED IN CUBA STREET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 225, 16 June 1908, Page 4

STREET WIDENING NEEDED IN CUBA STREET.

Sir, —I write to'endorse most lully tho remarks of your'correspondent "Advance Wellington" in' your issiio of Juno 11 with regard to Cuba Street especially. As lio slates "Cuba Street is fast being built upon, and cannot now bo-.widened, cxcept at a considerable expense," and "Property owners in the thoroughfares referred to, through their' own short-sightedness, will in a few years bo brought face to face with the fact that it is absolutely necessary to remove the tram from their street to tv new and widened thoroughfare." Tlio necessity for some alteration' in tho tram routo in order to avoid the congestion of tra%, particularly on Saturday iriglits in Cuba Street, must be obvious to any person who knows tho locality, and I would suggest as tho best way out of tho difficulty that tho tram lines should be moyed to Marion Street, which runs parallel to Cuba Street, and being a wido and lately-formed roadway is well suited for a tram routo. If this were done, it would bo a convenience to those desiring to reach tho now Post OlSco which is being built in Marion Street, and, further, if this thoroughfare ivoro carried through to Courtenay Placo, it would provido a most valuable and useful altornato routo ttf Cuba ■■ Strcot. It is difficult to understand why Marion Street was not sclcctcd for the tram scrvico to begin with. It is equally convenient for such to Cuba Street; \and being'broad and at presont a quiet residential 'street, tho, trains could run there quickly and without endangering ; tho limbs and lives of citizens as they do now every Saturday night in Cuba Street. By having stopping places at tho comers of Ingostro and Ghuzneo Stroots and Courtenay Placo, the ..shops in Cuba Street would continue to get their usual .customers without the groat iuconvonionco occasioned by tho tram traffic. 'Commending tho suggestion t'o those in authority.—l aiA, etc., ' ' ■ SHOPKEEPER.