KARORI ROADS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 8

KARORI ROADS

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Recently I have ■ read articles in "The Post" about buying Johnson's Hill, Karori, with the idea of making a public reserve and adding to the beauty of the suburb; and the progressive and beautifying people are jkeen to spend a few thousand of the j ratepayers' money on this scheme. This is all very well, but the ratepayers want streets and footpaths first. Campbell Street was a standing joke for I years—gold-digging, duckboards, and i trenches, etc., and still a few hundred yards of the old track remains. This is a disgrace: weeds and grass three feet high in places, and a large collection of rubbish which looks like a rub[bish tip, backed up with old rotten fences and old rusty corrugated iron.

This track juts out a few yards into the road and forms a very dangerous "bottle-neck" on the council bus route, and on a dark night a person walking down this track meets the bus going to town; in the full glare of the headlights one feels that he is walking full at the bus for a head-on collision. I have often waited till the oncoming council bus has got safely through the "bottle-neck," which is only twenty feet wide.

It is time something was done about this. People are now walking in the road rather than use this track. Rates are double what they were a few years ago, so wliy not finish the street and be done with it?—l am, etc., RATEPAYER.