OUR STREETS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 167, 22 April 1872, Page 2

OUR STREETS.

The last week’s wet weather has shown the deplorable slate into which our streets aud roads have been allowed to get, through want of keeping them repaired properly in the fine weather. In the whole town there is not even one crossing place where foot passengers can cross without getting into several inches of mud and slush. If something be not d*ne what will the condition of the roads be if we have, as wo may fully expect, a month or two of wet weather. With the heavy traffic now going over them in different places, they will be cut up in such a manner that they will not only be dangerous to travel over, but it will cost something enormous to repair them ; in fact, repairing will not do soon. They will have to be re-made. It is high time that some pressure was brought to bear on the Government, and that they were compelled to assist us in the matter, more especially with regard to those roads over which a large amount of goldfields traffic passes. As the streets at present exist, they are, without doubt* a disgrace to any place of the size and importance that the Thames has now reached, and. with the amount of revenue we pay into the Provincial exchequer* they are a dying disgrace to the Government. Something must be done, aud that ere long, or wc will have no roads at all to travel on unless we take to stilts, ig.. order to wade through the mire.