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Paved Street Crossings.
Paved Street
Crossings.
I beg first to direct your attention to the question
of Crossings in the line of the Public Footways. It is
a matter of congratulation that the footways of the
parish, generally, are now in a good condition. The
laying down of the Tar Paving Footpaths has
(although, in some localities, this work must be
considered temporary) afforded good, comfortable,
and useful paths. This will be readily admitted,
especially when compared with the condition of the
formerly gravelled paths.
These Public Footpaths, both flagged and tar
paved, are now nearly continuous throughout the
Parish, in the suburban as well as in the more populated
portions, but they require another work to be
executed to make the Footway traffic complete, viz.,
to lay down Stone-pitched Crossings at the junctions
of the collateral Roads.
The absence of these crossings destroys very
largely the good effect and comfort already produced
by the recent reparation of the Public Footways,
because the Public (in wet weather especially) have
to step from off the clean path on to a dirty