CITY ROADS.

Evening Star, Issue 20311, 21 October 1929, Page 7

CITY ROADS.

TO TUB EDITOU. Sir,—l see the council has put more screenings on the 'South road, Caversham, to be a nuisance to everybody. The lifetime of such roads is about three weeks between motorist and workman’s labour. First,, the. motorist sends the loose metal into the gutter, and, second, the workmen sweep it up and cart it to the tip. The local quarries must be making their fortunes out of the corporation at the ratepayers’ expense. “Wake Up” is waiting: for specification No. 2 If ho goes along Anderson’s Bay road he will see it in operation, slightly different, but on the same lines as specification No. 1, only we have three ivatertables on the road instead of two—one on each side and one in the middle, the middle one being the tramline. Every time the tramway department brings its track to the level of the road tho works department raises the sides of the road above it again, so as, I presume, to keep these three channels. When is this great waste of money going to stop? Is it nob time the ratepayers ■ rose up and demanded a better policy of spending their money? At the rate we are going cm I do nob know how long it wiU be lief ore we see the fiftieth specification. It has gone five years now, and No. 1 is not finished yet, Dunedin is still in the dark ages of road construction, and always will bo if the present policy is allowed to continue. If the council’s employees want a rise in'wages the cry is no money. No wonder, when we allow such a lot of our rates to be thrown into the rubbish tips and harbour every day. If a contractor was to waste his money as the Dunedin City Council is doing the Bankruptcy. Court would soon be his fate. We have a beautiful beach at St. Clair, but the roads and footpaths leading to it are a disgrace to any council. M‘Bride street is going to be tar-sealed at a cost of £213. What are we going to get for our money? A little bit of tar. and a handful of sand to keep the* public quiet.—l am, etc., Good Roads. October 2h-