Mays Road

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31107, 9 July 1966, Page 14

Mays Road

Sir, —In Mays road, between Rutland street and Kenwyn avenue, we have a street with a crown of 16in with a bitumen strip finished Bft 6in from the channel. The drop in this space is Ilin, making it dangerous for elderly people or children to alight or enter a car except where there is a culvert. The bitumen has a sharp edge and a rut 2in to 3in deep doing a lot of damage to car tyres and could cause a blow-out. On the south side water is always flowing from a pipe coming out of the road into a broken and sunken channel which at one of the culverts is always flooded at one end and seeps away at the other end. The channels are rarely swept, always full of rubbish and stagnant water, there is no outlet for it, and it can only seep away in the broken places. I tried to clean out a culvert with a garden hoe but was knocked back with the smell.—Yours,' etc., RESIDENT.

June 29, 1966. [The City Engineer (Mr P. G. Scoular) replied: “Throughout the city there is still a considerable mileage of streets which do not have a full-width seal from channel to channel. Depen ting on the finance which can be allocated, a limited amount of road shoulder formation and sealing is being undertaken each year. An item has been included in the current year’s estimates for shoulder work in Mays road, and in conjunction with this work it is hoped to carry out any necessary channel repairs. At the present time the channel cleaning staff is considerably under strength.”]