UPPER STOUT STREET

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23196, 7 March 1950, Page 4

UPPER STOUT STREET

Sir, —As a mother of a small child to carry on the back of a bicycle I thoroughly agree with everything published in the previous letters concerning the state of the road on Upper Stout Street. It is always a relief to reach home safely after cycling along a small portion of this road. The first corner is particularly dangerous for cyclists, as all the loose metal is thrown in heaps by fast moving traffic on to the side of the road. To avoid oncoming cars one is compelled to move on to it, knowing it is unsafe. The Borough Council apparently thinks it is pacifying us by dropping loads of very stony metal in that portion. The stones will fill the deep ruts there for the first two hours, but after a few trucks have scattered them all over the road, that will be just another set of obstacles for the cyclist. J am told that the Borough Council promised to tar seal this short distance before the war, but the war gave it a good excuse for not doing so. The war is well over so what is stopping the council from sealing it now? I feel sure that if we had a few members of the Borough Council living along this stretch they Avould soon have something done to make conditions better. “ANXIOUS BABY-DOUBLER.’’