DANGEROUS STREETS.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1968, 26 August 1869, Page 2

DANGEROUS STREETS.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, —In looking over your issue of last evening, I felt pleased to find that some kind friend called the attention of the public to the abandoned state of Pitt street cutting, but he did not allude to a greater evil caused by the latter—the impassable and dangerous state of Heriot Row and Royal Terrace, particularly at the junction ; but I suppose be was afraid of offending the dignified nostrils of our noble representatives by stirring up the mud. It is now nearly seven years since those roads were formed. During that time there has not been LSO spent on them, although the neighborhood is well populated. T ask, where are our rates going? la it to A. K. Smith and Co. ? I should have mentioned that about six weeks ago there were orders given for some temporaay improvement, so that we could get the requisites of life carried to our houses. It commenced at the junction of Queen street and Heriot Row, where a nice bit of a road was made, fronting the property of one of the servants of the Corporation. There it ended. Pitt street was a failure, owing to the management in changing the levels so often, v.hcu the work was to be done by prison labor. Why not have the prisoners’ overseer, Mr Outram, to conduct the work, and the road would have been opened before now. The only thing required to make a start is the laying down of a tramway. There are plenty of trucks lying idle iu the Government stock yard. Hoping that the above cause’will be sufficient excuse for taking up so much of your available sp^ce, —I have, &c., Ratepayer. Dunedin, August 24, 1869.