OUR FOOTPATHS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2262, 6 August 1870, Page 2

OUR FOOTPATHS.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, —Loud and deep have been the complaints of the citizens respecting the state of our footpaths at different times ; whether they have improved so much of late or the people have given up in despair of any improvement being made, I know not, but suspect the latter to be the case, or why should such a disgraceful destruction ofthe footpath be a! [owed in the very centre of the City, viz., at the north-east corner of the Octagon, where the footpath has been and is being cut up to such au extent by coal carts as to render it all but impassable ; this has now lasted several weeks, and is always getting the worse ; what was confined to the width of little more than a single crossing has now extended to five or six widths of a dray. But 1 notice this morning that even this morning that even this extended crossing is not likely to prove sufficient, as drays have now begun to cross the footpath at about twenty yards on either side ; should this go on much longer the expence of putting the footpath to rights will cost something considerable. Your insertion of this with a view to have this matter remedied, will I am sure confer a benefit on many. I am, &c., Citizen. Dunedin, sth August, 1870.