PAVING PROGRESS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 44, 16 November 1925, Page 8

PAVING PROGRESS

CLYDE QUAY BEING TREATED i One has to step lively these days to keep apace with the bitumen paving gangs, which are operating in the city and suburbs. Last week the work at Onepu Road and along the parade at Lyall Bay was completed, and on Tuesday last a start was made at the Courtenay Place end of Clyde Quay. Working along the western side of the tramway track, the paving had linked up with the strip which leads to’ Cable Street, and had advanced on Saturday to a point opposite the centre of the boat harbour.

On reaching Fitsgerald Point, the gang will work back again long the eastern side of the quay as far as the Oddfellows’ Hall. One small section of road in that vicinity which calls for attention, is the lower 100 yards of Majoribanks Street. This road carries practically the whole of the traffic for the populous slopes of Mt. Victoria—Roxburgh, Hawker, Port Austin, Brougham, and Levy Streets, and many subsidiary streets, and as the foot of Majoribanks Street (along the side of the De Luxe Theatre) is the place for a great deal of gear-changing, it is alwavs more or less pot-holed. This road ’has been put in order three or four times this year at considerable expense—probably more than _a threeincli surface of bitumen hot-mix would cost. Now that the gang is working round the corner in Clyde Quay is an excellent opportunity for taking the economical step mentioned.