CITY STREETS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 8

CITY STREETS.

URGENCY OF "LAY-OUT." Referring in his report for the year to the general lay-out of the City Mr A. R. Galbraith (City Engineer) states: "Lay-out is of the utmost importance especially having regard to the many schemes being carried out piecemeal for widening awl improving the many narrow thoroughfares throughout the City, as well as the far more pressing question of the seven arterial roads wherever and whenever possible, which radiate out from the City centre, i.e., Cathedral square, or in lieu thereof to provide alternative routes to relieve the over-increasing traffic congestion now existing therein. All those main roads are only a chain wide at the present, time, and are traversed bytramways, and should be widened at least another half-chain, providing the alternative already mentioned cannot be_ effected. As things are now, the Council have no legal powers to increase the width of any highway over one chain, and having regard to the probability of an extensive reconstruction of the City highways, more especially the main thoroughfares, in the not distant future, as well as the introduction of town planning legislation, together with the ever-increasing traffic congestion previously mentioned, the question of a 'lay-out' is one of everincreasing urgency."