CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 22

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

WASHINGTON AVENUE

(To the Editor.)

• six,— -Mr. M. W. Thew is apparently, suffering from two delusions. First that i he believes that he was instrumental in getting the City Council to place a tramway shelter shed at the foot of I Washington Avenue, and secondly, that the.Brooklyn Electors' Association is biased against Washington Avenue area. As chairman of the above association, I extend to Mr. Thew the privilege to peruse the correspondence files and he will discover that our association had sent in numerous requests for a tranwvay shelter shed for some years prior to its erection. The association has always opposed its location on the up-going side of tiie Brooklyn Road because the majority of tram passengers waiting, were down-going passengers and so had to cross the upgoing track to get on the down-going car. When the motor traffic gained the use of a right of way on the left side of the road, passengers to the city'then ran the danger of injury from the upgoing motor traffic and when a recent fatality occurred at •this spot the association's attitude was strengthened and had not the City Council carried out our wishes we would have taken the case to the Minister of Transport. Today this shelter shed is the safest spot for the majority of tram users, down passengers, and furthermore, the light of the shelter shed has, improved the illumination of this part of the road. Washington Avenue is represented by two executive members and they both reside within a few chains of the shelter shed, and another two members reside off Washington Avenue close to the school. Our association has had improvements effected to Washington Avenue just past the Anglican Church and are now negotiating for further improvements at the Anglican Church corner and the Mills Road-Washington Avenue and Connaught corner. Washington Avenue was one of the first streets to be recommended for tarsealing. So it must be obvious to all that there is no opposition to the improvement of the Washington Avenue | area. In conclusion, the only residents depending on the use of the Washington Avenue tram shelter shed are those living between Brooklyn Road i and Heaton Terrace —a matter of some forty houses. The rest of Washington Avenue have easy access to the tram terminus in Cleveland Street.—l- am, etc • L.G.AUSTIN/ Chairman, Brooklyn Electors' Association.