TO LYELL BAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 10

TO LYELL BAY.

THE NEW TRAMLINE,

Aforetime, that' narrow waste that links t!i,o Miramar Peninsula to tho mainland was given over to furtivo rabbit?, carcasses. of defunct cquincs, casual persona,"and 'he winds of 'heaven. The idea of it ever becoming a populated .district seemed the most unlikely tiling that could be imagined of it. Yet that bids fairly to oome to pass. Given a tramline, there are residential, possibilities anywhere, and the Lyoll Bay - tramline is going to reclaim the strip'of wilderness that was once, so tradition says, deep , enough in tho water to, allow a certain navigator, yclept Cook, to sail right over into ' Port Nicholson. Tho primary function of the L.veLl Bay tramway, when completed; is to afford easy access to- fto finest sea-beaoh •in Port Nicholson.. But, to . judgo from • the roads that are in process of formation close to ■ tho tramway routo, a residential popula. tton is. moro than a matter of speculation as it has been with the' Lycil Bay Iload, so it will bo with tho'rest of tho Isthmus. - Tho sand will-be disciplined,-and tho wilderness 1 ,0 f dunes becomo a. thing of the past. Arid all-this;, will be. accomplished by a lino of i stcol rails, • . i

i outward ;and visible signs :-"of •••the 'ftituro state _of v the isthmus' are a straight lino of roughly-constructed. Toad,' various piles of - tramway; sleepers, steel rail), a'gajig of perspiring men, and a few strenuous.drays. Along the centre of ilto road ■ has..been trenched, for about half tlio ,for.tho tramway slcepors. A. httje distance, beyond the "Bundv" clock avtho Coutts Street stqp in South Kilbirnie a double line of rails brandies southward aoross fP® isthmus, forms a loop, and then, in a'singlo l>no V pomts :;s trnightly, towards a .deep baad of bluo that shows up through a break in tho sand dunes.-, So far, it only points. It doc's not run. ..About one, hundred yards along,', tlie rails stop, and from there another one hundred yards of sleepers straggle onward; after that,, a • length of ■ vacant trench, and beyond, the road.. There are no poles. But the distance is small/, and as soon as permanent way lias boon completed", by the engineer's department of the City ' Council the poles, will bo'erectod and tho wires' .-idjustcd 'by the tramway authorities. Thereafter, it is presumed, the Lyoll Bay beach will' become ono of tho most popular rssorto of tllio citizens,of Wellington;