A DIFFICULTY SOLVED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9112, 11 June 1908, Page 4

A DIFFICULTY SOLVED.

The Borough Council seems to have about solved a little difficulty which it is perhaps not yet cognisant of. That difficulty is the provision of a cycling track in the borough thoroughfares. In Lincoln Road a new idea has been introduced in connection with the water-tables and kerbing. Instead of a long line of useless culverts being put down, which do little else but distribute surface water over the road after rain storms, the footpaths are slightly graded down to the water-table, obviating th necessity for a culvert at all, the kerbing being tapered off where the

culverts would otherwise have been. The consequence is that the concrete water-table is from end to end of the street clear of obstruction for cyclist?, and had the width of the tables been increased to the same width as those in Perry Street an excellent cycling track available on muddy days wyuld have resulted. As they are, however, the water-tables are considerably better for cycling purposes than a muddy roadway, and the Council should seriously consider the question of removing the culverts in Perry Street, which is a much greater used thoroughfare than Lincoln Road, and very much muddier, as a general rule. The general finish of Lincoln Road footpaths is a distinct advance on the culvert system, and when added to this, the temptation to cyclists to break the by-laws is removed, an important object is achieved.