NARROW ROADS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2763, 17 August 1931, Page 6

NARROW ROADS.

BAR TO PROGRESS. Narrow doors admit little light. Narrow ideas admit little progress. Narrow roads admit little prosperity. Wide roads, 100-foot roads, are essential to a broader basis of city improvement. Procf of this value of 100-foot roads h'is been outlined by a noted writer on civic subjects, J.C. Nichols, quoted in a recent issue of the “American City Magazine-.” Roads 100 feet in width are needed for all shopping streets, he holds. He urges that the paving width be 72 feet on the major, streets and 60 feet on the minor streets, so as to give room for diagonal parking and other facilities, as well as at least four lanes of traffic. Real estate developers who wish to see their sections grow will do well to bear these figures in mind. The public wants to buy where travel and parking- facilities are ample. The day of the narrow street sub division project has gone. The suburb of to-morrow will have 100-foot main roads, ample parking space, pedestrian streets, playgrounds and parks, and a two-car garage with each home.