STRATFORD’S FOOTPATHS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 432, 13 May 1937, Page 4

STRATFORD’S FOOTPATHS

(To 4he Editor); Sir, —Is it not time that something Wfu« said or done on behalf of the folk who, from necessity or cfloice, walk to and fro in our town? Most of our streets t re tar-sealed, but, ou s-d-e of Broadway cen.ral there is not a decen: footpath. No consideration whatever is shown to the pedestrian, but the car driver has he beat provided for him. Practically every garage and service station in Stratford park their clients’ cars on the footpath while they make adjusm?nts and sometimes i even repairs, and while this is being done women, young and old, mothers with prams and young children and decrepit old people have to move off into the watertable, and regardless of weather or underfoot conditions, the person who walks has to give way to the chr. I am told that every footpath in Hawera is curbed and Cannot we, with high, and threats of still higher, rates have some of our foe 4 paths attended to? Broadway central is the best street in Tarlanaki, but Stratford if the laughing stock of the province in that only one block is decently paved. Is it too late to have some improvement made in the footpaths before the winter sets'in?—l am, etc., “PEDESTRIAN.”