DUST IN OUR STREETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15551, 7 March 1914, Page 11

DUST IN OUR STREETS.

Sir,—Will you permit me to add my proteait against the insufferable nuisance caused by the excessive speed at which motor-cars are driven up and down Queen Street and Karangahapo Road in between Grey's Statue and the top. of the hill. From early morning till midnight this section is enveloped in a cloud of dust materially injuring the health of the residents living in the locality, and also those of all pedestrians who use the side walks. Occasionally cars race one another at full tpeed to evade one another's dust, to the eminent danger of anyone wishing to cross the street on business. There have been many narrow escapes already of persons being run down. If the cars were to travel at a reasonable pace the dust arising from them would be modified. Thin section of Queen Street is in a deplorable condition already, and will soon need remetalling. Why it has not been tarred to protect it, is a. great oversight. The motor-car drivers are mostly young men who seem to glory in the speed they drive their cars at, regardless of the inJury they cause the cars. They are not much driving as destroying. Why should the ratepayers have to be thus tormented as to the dust nuisance, or why should the streets that are so costly to maintain bo needlessly destroyed? Cannot the City Council check this intolerable nuisance on the one hand, and the damgo to the streets that are macadamised on the other?