SYDNEY & HILL STREETS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 12 December 1923, Page 9

SYDNEY & HILL STREETS

TO 188 EDITOR. Sir,—ln "The Post" of the 30th November last the Mayor is reported as stating that permission to construct a tram line via Sydney street had been refused by the Government, and that the council would have to turn its attention to a short cut to Tinakori road via Hill street. Some time back the proposition to lay a double line along Hill street was considered, and petitioned against by the residents of that street, and abandoned by the council. I submit Uhat Hill street is too narrow for a double.line, being under'2s feet of road formation. Assuming that the Government refused its consent to the Sydney street route on the ground of disturbance to tho use of Parliament Houso through noise from the trams, I beg to point out that a tram, double or single, through Hill street would disturb those using the Parliament Library and Committee-rooms, also to the congregations at the Basilica. I further question whether, on economical grounds, tho council is justified in going to the expense of laying tram lines through Hill street; it is too short to have stopping-places, so no new passengers would be acquired. True, the council has the control of tho city streets, but only as trustees for the publio, and I think it is, scandalous the way double lines or crossings have been laid in Molesworth, Cuba, and other narrow streets, to' the inconvenience and danger of people using the same. The lay-out at the junction of Hill street with Molesworth street and Tinakoii road will be highly dangerous to the public; if a double line be taken through Hill street I doubt whether there will be space, to permit vehicles to be drawn up in front of tho residences clear of the tram lines.— I am, etc., ' inn. r. , HENRY HALL. 10th Deoember.