BETTER STREETS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1919, Page 8

BETTER STREETS

CITY ENGINEER'S OBSERVATIONS.

It is probable that, during the next year the City Council will be called upon to give special attention to the streets of the city, and whether the policy of the municipality will provide for wood-block-ing or some other surface depends upon Che report of the City Engineer (Mr. W H. Morton), who is now investigating the question at Home. In a recent letter to the Mayor, Mi1. Morton stated that he was very interested in some work done at Hornsey, which town possessed a very progressive engineer. The latter had succeeded in making some very fine streets with hituminised crushed and graded refuse which was used for the aggregate. These were .really very good —the finest roads he had seen. He was obtaining all particulars. In London, where a. compressed mineral asphalt material was used, tha streets crept into hollows and ridges on account of tha heavy traffic. The pounding on the. streets was so'severe that soft wood pavements were pulverised. He had seen the wood broken up so that it could' be shovelled up. A depth of 6in of concrete, it had been proven, was , insufficient. Incidentally, Mr. Morton states that municipal authorities in, England are spending a great deal of money in relaying roads and pavements, which, apparently, were neglected during the war.