A CITY IMPROVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 8

A CITY IMPROVEMENT

PAVING OF BOULCOTT STREET ACUTE CORNER TO BE BANKED One of the most needed of city street surface improvements is the paving of Boulcott Street, the main avenue from the business part of the city to Wellington Terrace, and a street which has contributed more dust and grit to the city atmosphere of late than half-a-dozen others, owing to its sharp grade, and the fact that the prevailing northerlies sweep unchecked downhill into Manners Street.

It has always been, a cause of trouble, too, in very wet weather, as the drains have never been able to carry off the water that floods down from the hills above, and there have been many occasions when the lower part of this street has been . little more than a raging torrent. Now that it is about to be paved better conditions must result. The lower stretch (from the Albert Hotel corner to Church Street) has been regraded, and a great deal of surface material removed to make for an even lift. At present the second section, between Church Street and Plinnner’s Steps, is being prepared, and the waterworks department of the council and the Gas Company are attending to the mains before the road is scaled down.

At the corner opposite the back of The Dominion office the city engineer has decided to bank the road in order to help drivers of motor vehicles to round the sharp corner as easily as possible. There have been a good many accidents at that spot owing to the very sharp turn on a steep hill, but witn a three-foot bank on the outside, supported by a stout concrete wall, and with the opposite corner—Crease’s corner—splayed back, this place will have none of its former terrors for the motorist.

In the upper part of Boulcott Street which connects with the Terrace there will be an attempt to rmighen the surface a little, so as to give a little grip that is not present on the perfecflvrolled surface of bituminous asphalt.