KAIKORAI VALLEY ROAD

Evening Star, Issue 23147, 22 December 1938, Page 17

KAIKORAI VALLEY ROAD

DUST NUISANCE CONTINUES WIDENING OPERATIONS HELD UP The Kaikorai Valley road, one of the most important arterial thoroughfares about Dunedin, is the subject of frequent , complaints by residents and motor drivers. Failure to acquire one property appears to have held up the widening of the road, which carries, a great deal of mixed traffic.” During* the past 10 years a number of properties have been acquired and the street widened. At one point, however, the widening has not been completed owing to the fact that negotiations have not been successful with one property owner. Possibly the improving of the surface of the road is being delayed till the last property is secured, but, whatever the position, the residents and shopkeepers are suffering a great deal of inconvenience through the clouds of dust, this nuisance having been aggravated since the Roslyn end of the road has been used as a bus route. In the case of shops selling goods for human consumption the dust is particularly objectionable and unsafe. During the day a water cart of the sprinkler type is used on the road, but after 4.30 p.m. to midnight there is nothing to abate the dust nuisance. On holidays and Sundays there are no water carts in operation. There is only one formed footpath and water channel on the road, and in wet weather pedestrians walking along the footpath are splashed with mud flying from passing vehicles.