USE OF ROADWAY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 8

USE OF ROADWAY

Newly-surfaced Strip APPEAL TO MOTORISTS For what, must be the first time in the history of Wellington, the City Engineer’s department is appealing to motorists to use a strip of newly-bitu-mened and still rather soft piece of road. The area is in Gienmore Street on the opposite side of the road from, the Botanical Gardens. It has just been laid down iu what is known as' “Low Cost Bitumen,” which has the property of slow setting, and can be worked while cold. It takes five days to complete and to go hard. But it needs traffic on it to consolidate it. As a rule, when a new surface has been laid down on a road, the men in charge of the job have the greatest difficulty in keeping motorists off it until the surface has hardened. For some unknown reason, practically every, driver passing down Gienmore Street has decided to regard the new surface as absolutely „ “tabu,” and even the directions of the meu on duty have had no more effect than to make them drive further on to the other side. The piece of roadway now has an excellent surface, which will probably: suffer unless traffic passes over it. Hence the plea for motorists to use it as much as possible.