NEW CITY APPROACH

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 18

NEW CITY APPROACH

FAST PAVING WORK

AOTEA AND WATERLOO QUAYS

The laying of 13,000 square yards of pavement in Aotea Quay, two-course work, three inches in thickness, is completed, and in far faster time by machine paving, than was ever achieved by the shovel and rake methods when the big city and suburban programme was in hand. The machine, moreover, lays a truer surface than can be put down by hand 'york, for the long and wide wbeelbase evens out irregularities of the foundation, and does it faster and cheaper. Five or six men and the machine, in fact, cover as much ground in the working day as fifteen or twenty men spreading and raking, but the main difference between machine and rake spreading is that the work can now be done practically all the year round, except in unusually barf weather. Formerly paving had to stop about May on account of the difficulty of getting the tipped hot mix spread and rolled before it cooled below working temperature, but the machine carries the mix in a hopper from which it drops directly to the roadway and is rolled immediately. Waterloo Quay is next on the list after the paving machine has been given a routine overhaul and adjustment Doubts have been expressed by a correspondent whether this length can be completed before the end of the year, but unless there is so much bad weather that the work will be held up for weeks oh end Waterloo Quay will be a finished job by Sep'ember. •-''■■•

The last section of concrete foundation work, between Bunny Street and Whitmore Street, is being laid, and though this has appeared to be slowish work the apparent delays have, been caused mainly by the renewal of underground services, stormwater, drainage! and a special service between the site of the new Government Printing Office and the harbour. North of Bunny Street the surface of the concrete slab has been smoothed to some extent by continual traffic, and this is being prepared for the running surface of black pavement by a light scoring, but as soon as the foundation slab between Bunny and Whitmore Streets has matured precedence will be given to this length to facilitate traffic about the Ferry Wharf. There is any amount of work ahead of the paving organisation; one of the early jobs will probably be the resurfacing of the floor of the Mount Victoria tunnel. Another . waterfront job to be done is the laying of the floor of the Harbour Board's new shed on Aotea Quay, ' '/