BROKEN GLASS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 24 December 1928, Page 8

BROKEN GLASS.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, —Our City Council lays claim to many things and many innovations for the welfare of our citizens, but I would like to make public an accident that, in my opinion, is a case of glaring neglect. For over a week a large mass of broken glass has lain over an area of a square yard on Lincoln Road. For a week I have seen this glass, morning, noon and night, diminishing in quantity as cyclists and motorists have removed it bit by bit—in their tyres. For over a week I, and perhaps the many hundreds of cyclists who use Lincoln Road, have been wondering how soon? or how long it would take one of the council employees to turn up and remove this menace. But broken glass, like dirty channels, seem to be nobody’s business. Through the rains of last week, when the channels of Lincoln Road were blocked with every kind of refuse, no employee was seen pushing his broom along' the gutters. It seems about time that someone woke up and got busy. Our streets are strewn with glass—l know another spot in the same road where glass has lain for three weeks—and it should at least be someone’s responsibility to remove it. Tyres cost money, and it is not fair that we, who use the roads, should be put to inconvenience and expense through the slackness of the City Council. I hope that this glass will be removed soon, and*- not left over the Christmas holidays, as the matter is a serious one.—l am, etc., J. WILSON.