QUEEN STREET TRAMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22539, 2 October 1936, Page 12

QUEEN STREET TRAMS

NEW TRACK FOUNDATIONS WORK STARTING NEXT WEEK A start will be made with the laying of new foundations for tho tram tracks in Queen Street between Victoria and Customs Streets early on Monday morning, soon after the last of Sunday night's trams have ceased running. The present roils are laid on wooden stringers supported by wooden rails, and subsidences have made necessary tlie replacement of the foundations with stool ones made of old tram rails. To minimise traffic interruptions and cause as little disturbance as possible to business people the work will proceed only when trams are not running. A certain amount of excavation will bo done for the removal of the old foundations. As a foundation for the new stringers, steel piles will be driven vertically, and this work, which will be clone by a petrol-driven pile hammer, will make a considerable amount of noise, but every endeavour will be made to cause as little inconvenience as possible to guests at hotels and others living within hearing. The rails will be jacked np to allow the services to bo maintained as usual during tho day. The work, which will start on the inward track below Wyndham Street, will be carried out by the Transport Board's regular staff and will take several weeks.