CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 10

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—Regarding improvement of : Cargill road, which is badly needed, we are told that directly the Railway Department shifts back the railway fence the road will he gone on with, but why this waiting game ? 1 find that the road, as widened at both ends, comes in a line with the new footpath curb, which is also in a line with the present railway fence. Therefore if the few iron posts that are carrying the overhead electric wires were shifted close up against the present railway fence improvements to the road could be gone on with. The tramway rails could be shifted to a middle position, when the concrete found could be put in and asphalt top-dressing completed, without waiting for the railway fence to be pulled down as the strip required from the Railway Department is only a footpath and this footpath could very well be done without for some time. As a matter of fact there is not a footpath there at the present time. I have been to other cities throughout New Zealand, and I have no hesitation in saying that as far as main roads are concerned we are far behind' the other chief towns. What is badly wanted is a concrete road from Cargill corner to the St. Clair esplanade, and that without’any more silly delays. We have the mayor out near Cargill’s corner. What is he doing for the south end of Dunedin? I think a reversion to the old ward system will he a step in the right direction. There is nothing like having a man that represents the interests of the community in which he lives or has his business. The present system tends to centralise, or in other words, make a beautiful centre with a scraggy edging. The roads in the centre are good, but about a mile from the centre they are the limit. In Wellington I went for fourteen miles t without passing over a bad bit of road, and in Auckland one can go, I believe, thirty-one miles without a pothole.—l am, etc., Progress. January 12.