A CITY IMPROVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 244, 9 July 1921, Page 12

A CITY IMPROVEMENT

CHANCE OF WIDENING WAKEFIELD STREET. (By "Civis.”) With all the City Council’s consideration of the betterment of traffic condiuons in tho future in M ellington one great opportunity is possible, and m SiZgoing (o the lobonmm of placing a proclamation over existing propertied in order to widen a thorough-f-ire As time advances and th. P • develops, Wakefield. Street (which extends in an almost direct lino from . tl e tramways power-house to Cly<le Qui. y) ° destined to be ono of the chief UaffiC ,ilv and Wellington South at pre.onr. proceX along this thoroughfare, and if it were wood-blocked it "°’ild >e 1 C?lrip “l & , „ c „ t 5, m trac « U awn with rank grass; (31 an extension nt H e I etcher Construction Company s (4) OX German cannon park ; o) 51 m 'l-A Aro Railway Station; (6) the ’U -X; V CT tM Zealand timber J ntiouwi u A<lmi l? n the uses to ’“ s b.. b.» made of alternative tram tracks along Gris road to relieve those that thread their way through the retail business streets, and the city engineer las reported favourably on such a b®honie, but I am credibly informed that a covered trench for the telephone wires extends the full length of the street, making it awkward to lay down double tramway tracks but if the old railway land could be secured—and there is little doubt that it should ber-there would be ample space for a double track without infringing on the trenched area. With the opening up of the To Aro foreshore by through (north and south) streets, this road will need to be a very wide one, and a two-chain road in place of .the present one-chain ono would- largely relieve our congested mid-city thoroughfares, and lie a gracious consideration to tho people of Wellington fifty years hence. At present this fine strip of land is a rather depressing spectacle, but acquired by the city and turned Mito road space it would be a very real and sadly-needed city improvement.