HELD UP AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 10

HELD UP AGAIN

QUEEN'S DRIVE'WIDENIXG:!, Members of the Lyall-;Bay Progr.es-' sive Association on Thursday '.ovening discussed with considerable warmth the holding up of the widening. ql Queen's Drive,, and were ;'uriaiiimous "tJvat, tf'jnotost should -be' made ag^kiu'st tiio apathy displayed: by. the' Works"; Com- „ niittee in holding r up' this most ■ important work. , > . ■ ' ' ". It was remarked that' the association" had fought strenuously since. 1920 for the .widening of the drive and the ■formation of the footpaths; '■■Three years, ago an attempt was made -to '-<lb JtKe work/but after the workmenhad-lie'cri .'-. employed about two clays'tlio chairman . of the Works Committee,-Councillor H. D. B'enndtt, with the then Mayor; Mr. C. B. Norwood, and other members of the council were prevailed ' upon'to pcisit the locality, when it was-found that the improvements suggested' wo«i]d not meet with present-day-requirements. The plans were altered accordingly"for a 40-foot roadway, and the work-al-ready commenced was roped off, pending the' acquisition of certain After a wait of about three years, during which period the ropes['remained; and the council watchman attended religiously to the lamps used at night time' to save unwary pedestrians from becoming bogged, the. property wkiph prevented the enlargement was'acquired hv the council, and residents •'were, assured of an early completion. '.'■ of 4\ie work, and the provision of a main drive, arfU footpaths for the school children ; and others which would be a credit to the district. The work was commenced again in real earnest a few weeks" ago, and residents were congratulating them- -' selves on the achievement.. of: a longfelt want. Suddenly, however, r-;the workmen were recalled. The work was now held" up indefinitely, .and the positipn was worse than ever, as owing ;to the anticipated alterations.., nothing had been done in the way of maintenance of the road, which was simply, a. mass of potholes. It was resolved yon. the motion of Mr. B. Leslie Jones to forward a strong letter of ,'protest to the ' City' Council at the irritating delay, in completing the work, and again.pointing out the considerable danger existing to school children, and the annoyance caused them and other pedestrians;' in being splashed with mud and; water from passing'vehicles. : , '-. „, - ;! . . The appreciation of residents of tho continuance of the midnight bus. .service from Lyall Bay to the city, and the desire that it should become a permanent fixture in its time-table, are to be conveyed to the Tramway Depart,ment. • . Approval was expressed of the now regulation governing the, .issuq-.-pf scholars' tickets by. the Tramway- De- • partment, but the meeting considered that the department should be ro-. quested to issue instructions to conductors to exercise their discretion when enforcing it, as several complaints had been made of the arbitrary and unpleasant methods adopted by some of ' its conductors. • . The City Council is to bo asked when it intends to proceed . .with the tarsealing of the roads included in : the'" loan schedule. - ' ■