STREET PAVING SCHEME

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 7

STREET PAVING SCHEME

EXPLANATION BY MAYOR. SAFETY MARGIN ALLOWED. In commenting on the schedule (published in the “Times” of Saturday) of street areas which will be paved if the ratepayers' approve the £200,000 loan, the Mayor, Mr R. A. Wrigiit M.P., said that a safety margin has been allowed in respect of each item on the schedule, and the amount allowed per Square yard of surface is ample when viewed in the light of experience of tho work already done in the city. ‘ ‘There is no reason to believe that,this work will be any more costly than what has been done already; in fact, there is very good reason to believe that we shall now be able to lay pavement® of equal thickness more cheaply, aTea for area. Already reductions are being shown in the cost of paving as compared with that of the Hutt road. BRICK ON CONCRETE; “Bitumen works up to too fine and too dangerous a surface forchorse traffic upon hill grades, and 'therefore a different olass of surface had to he decided upon. The decision 'ie for brick pavements laid upon a six-inch foundation of concrete. The system of"iaying wiH be very similar to that of woodblocking, hut the cost will he very much less, for the brick will cost, say, lid, whereas the woodblock would cost about 6d. Brick pavements are in wide use oversea on grade roads, and local experience, plus the lessons to be learned from brick pavements elsewhere, suggets that this class of surface should he good for twenty years. The estimate for brick on concrete paving, as will be Seen above, is 20s per square yard.” HUTT ROAD EXTENSION. Mr Wright also referred to the epecialprovLsiona 1 of the schedule in regard to IHutt road extension extras, and explained that under the extension scheme of the Hutt Road Board the 'board was responsible for the paving of a 24-foot strip only in Evans Bay, Lyall Bay Parade, Queen’s Drive, and Oriental Bay Parade. The special provisions of the council’s schedule provided for the full-width surfacing of those streets or roads, to bring them into line with other streets to be surfaced, each one from kerb to kerb. “No doubt there are many points upon which citizens still desire information,” concluded Mr Wright. , “The Bpecial meeting of the council on Thursday evening will consider some of these, particularly in regard to the brick paving proposals, and between now and the date of the poll we shall endeavour to explain any other points which may crop up. We desire to give all information possible; the scheme is a good one, and there can be no doubt of the result of the poll if the scheme is fully understood bv those who are to ho asked to vote upon it.”