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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 13

THE ARCADE. 10 TEE EDITOR. Sir .—I notice that the question of a right of way through the Arcade lias again been raised by our city fathers; and it is apparently suggested that advantage should be taken of some visionary right on the part of the public in order to confiscate the property and turn it into a public street. It is admitted that a street through the Arcade would be a decided advantage to the city, as it would relieve the congestion in Rattray street; but to suggest that the closing of the Arcade would increase the congestion in the adjoining streets is abso lutely absurd. . The only traffic through the Arcade is fot traffic‘and the great majority of the pedestrians who use Rattray, Maclaggan, and High streets never pass through the Arcade at all. while travellers by both cable cars are carried right past it. You have only to visit the Arcade at any hour of the day to see that the members ot the public who do use it only a« a short cut ore so few in number that they make no appreciable difference to the foot traffic in Rattray and High streets. The only possible advantage to the city to bo obtained from the Arcade would be by making it open for vehicular traffic, and this could only be done by purchasing it from the owners for a public street. Even if the public has a right of way through it, which 1 understand both the present and previous owners emphatically deny, that does not make, it open for ! vehicular traffic and unless it can bo opened for vehicular traffic it is of no use to the city.—l am, etc., Citizen. Dunedin, December 3.