BETTER FOOTPATHS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 8

BETTER FOOTPATHS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Many of the present city councillors, including the present Mayor, at the last election received many votes on a promise of "better foothpaths." But what has been done? The foothpath on the western side of Taranaki street, starting from Courtenay place, is a good specimen of displaced and uneven paving. Then just how much supervision is given to the. footpath crossing to motor garages? In the endeavour to get a bumpless entrance, little consideration seems to be given to the pedestrian. . For example, a builder of a motor garage in Oriental Bay has sloped half the footpath away, leaving only a narrow strip for its proper use. In Konini road, Hataitai, a motor garage owner, to get a good run-in, has sloped away some ten feet of footpath, leaving a sudden drop for the pedestrian to stumble across. Along Upland road, several other examples occur. If these en^ trances have to punctuate our footpaths, surely someone in authority should see that they are not left as traps for the unwary and long-suffering pedestrian. If the council wants profitable jobs for the unemployed, could not our footpaths be put into better shape? A few travelling gangs of these men, under proper. direction, could at least fill up the bad patches and correct many of the present dangerous crossings caused by allowing defective motor entrances over many of our largely used footpaths.—l am, etc., PEDESTRIAN.