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BIG CITY WORK

LYALL BAY VIA CRAWFORD RD.

MASSIVE CONCRETE WALLS

A costly and easily the biggest now work now engaging the attention of tho City Engineer's department is tlie preparing of Crawford Boad for the doublo tramway track that is to connect Constable Street nith South Kilbirnic.-With-out actually visiting the scene it.is difficult to grasp the magnitude of this work, which is transforming what lias hitherto been one of tho roughest areas as far as roads ate concerned within Greater Wellington. To commence in Constable Street-, it lias there been found necessary to erect new tramway poles on cither side of the street to provide for a spanwire overhead system, and theso poles have had to. be set a couple of feet back m the footpath from tllio present kerb, as it will, a little later on, bo necessary to set the kerb back to a now lino in order to allow l'or the proper road 6pace for the double track between kerbs—a minimum of 3Gft. ,9iu. The sumo emergency has necessitated the removal of another 15ft. from tho high bank to tho south of tlie cutting at the top' of Constable Street, a work that has given somo little trouble owing to tho rotten character of the ground—a. pronounced "greasy-track" of mixed rotten rock and clay. From tho top of Constable Street the pies for the span wires will be round ironbark ones instead of iron, nnd theso are being set on the inner "side of the footpaths instead of on the kerb-line to allow of the road being altogether free from obstacles of any kind from bank to bank. Crawford Road is a welhgradcd thoroughfare, which- winds somowhat tortuously down the ICilbirnie hillside to a connection at the foot with Seatoun Eoad. As provision has had to be mado for a, double track, a great deal of work has been necessary, the greater part of which has been done. It was advisable to provido for a width of over 40ft. between , kerbs, and the engineers have managed to make the road between 41 and ■Hit. in width, and at the same time provide for a Gft. footpath the whole of the distance on the eastern side of the road and in parts on both sides. There have been some big'fiiliugs in the angles, and to support theso massive concrete walls have been erected in places over 200 yards in length, varying in thickness from 3ft. to Ift. Opposite George's corner the wall is over 20ft. in height. Tlie corner on the top of which stands Jlr. George's residence has been smoothly rounded off, and where some of the earth has slipped away a face of conorete lias been substituted.: Lower down at the intersection of Duncan Street, there is a depression which is being filled in against a low too wall. Here a cottage property has been' resumed to give the road a better line. Where Norton Terrace branches off to tho westward three parallel concrete walls have been erected —one to support the main bank (on tite western side of tho road), one to support' the diversion to Norton Terrace, and another low toe-wall below the filling on the opposite (or lower) side of tho road. Beyond the liife of Tully Street again there is a long vertical concrete wall, reinforced for a section, and opposite l is a high toe wall (a fine piece of work) supporting the-bank on the upper side. This last - sweep of the road takes one into the purlieu -of ICilbirnie South, at the junction of Crawford Eoad, Seaitonn Eoad,' and Childer's Terrace. As a certain easement is needed at the corner for tramway purposes three cottages in Childer s Terrace and the store at the corner of Childer's Terrace and Soatouo Boad are being set back some ten feet. Prom that point tho double track nill be laid down Seatoun Eoad (a GGft. wide street), to its junction with the existing track that traverses Bay Eoad (opposite the South Kilbirnie Post Office). A further easement will bo made at the corner bv snipping elf-a'bit of the corner on mt F''PP' S butchery nt present stands. Ihe work is well forward, and -provided the necessary equipment comes i to hand in good time the new section of tramways should bo ready by the end of October or beginning of November. A good deal of the steel rails for tho tracks i aro already to hand, -but the heavy overhead copper wire has still to come. The laying of the track will be proceeded with as soon as the heavy road work, now so well forward, is completed. The new secpwn of tramways taps a well-settled district; it will give direct access to the ?ca«ido . resorts of Wellirfrton-beyond-the-hills to the residents of Wellington South, relieving the congested tunnel route, and will be a valuable alternative route for the heavy holiday traffic to Lyall Bay, Marantu, Uiramar, and Seatoun duriii? tlie coming summer months.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2533, 6 August 1915, Page 9

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BIG CITY WORK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2533, 6 August 1915, Page 9

BIG CITY WORK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2533, 6 August 1915, Page 9

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