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In connection with these works the bridges and arches
crossing the following streets are being extended:—
Brady street
Tapp street
Collingwood street
Coventry street
Buckhurst street
Cambridge road
Southborough place is abolished.
At Three Colt corner a new and more direct footbridge
has been erected, which, with the additional
lamps provided, will be a great improvement.
Winchester crescent and Carlisle street are shortened.
The sewer in Carlisle street was a 12 in. pipe sewer,
and passed under the Railway to Waterloo Town.
It consequently was quite inaccessible in case of
stoppage, and under these circumstances the G.E.R.
Company have constructed a new 12 in. pipe sewer to fall
in the opposite direction and connect with the sewer in
Winchester street, so that the pipes under the railway
may be abandoned.
The Company are also bound to take down the existing
arch crossing Buckhurst street and substitute for it a
girder bridge. This will remove an obstruction which
has been, ever since Buckhurst street was formed, a
source of great danger to the public, and a cause of
more than one fatal accident. Its removal will also be
of pecuniary advantage to the Vestry, as the two danger
lamps which have hitherto been maintained there at a
cost of about £10 per annum will be unnecessary.
The works generally are progressing with rapidity,
and the Railway Company's Engineer has taken every
care that the public should suffer as little inconvenience
as possible. The bridges have been constructed over
the roads without stopping the traffic, and the mode
of construction justifies the hope that they will bo
watertight, and not therefore add to the great nuisance