PAVING TO BEGIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 11

PAVING TO BEGIN

SUBSTANTIAL PROGRAMME

MAKING GOOD STQRM

DAMAGE

During the past fortnight the paving plant at Lyall Bay has been working full time, on small job?; about the city and in making good pavements, paths, and small areas damaged during the winter and particularly during the last few stormy months. The weather has apparently, taken a definite turn for the better ana the main surfacing programme will be opened during the next two weeks. The biggest single paving jobs are on Waterloo and Aotea. Quays and on Brooklyn Road,, on which the new paving machine will be used, after a preliminary run on a smaller work, possibly about the middle of next week. Had the preliminary work in connection with the Bowen-Sydney Street deviation been further advanced this length would also have been on the paving programme, but there has been considerable delay in the formalities connected with the issue of the Order in Council authorising the work and little progress has been made. No statement has been made as to the result of negotiations betweeA the City Council, the Railways Department, and the Harbour Board as to the securing of an additional strip the length of Aotea Quay to make possible a divided roadway along the waterfront, though there is complete agreement among all associated with road and highway construotion \ hat that development is practically essential in the interests of traffic speed and traffic "safety, as a 50« foot roadway between the Hutt Road ramp and the northern end of Waterloo j Quay, complicated by cross traffic to and from a line of warehouses to be built on the reclaimed land fronting Aotea Quay, would constitute so serious a bottle-neck that the advantage of the Hutt Road ramp and the waterfront route as a whole would be seriously reduced,