CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 425

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Centre it tends to spread the traffic more

Evenly across the whole width of the road it into two Equal streams. In Hongkong I think it will be found

and to regulate.

desirable to adhere to the English Custom

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And keep the lines double and

single

the road, not only for

the

the middle

of

reason adduced but for the additional one

convexity which has to

that the arching.

be given

to road

surfaces in the Colony,

order to Enable them at once to throw off

the

heavy tropical rainfall, scarcely allows of a

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tram rails being

Laist level Except

along, the Crown of the arch, that is along the Centre of the street. A tramway laid on one s side, would in consequence of the downward Lave to Lave Slope from centre to Side gutter, one rail lower than the other, and the

tamcard would

therefore

travel with a lean

or inclination to the side nearest the kerb:

stone. With reference to tramways along.

Luburban or

country roads bounded by

blank garden walls, hedges, and fences, "find

that English local authorities attach

poslance to keeping the rails

&

Mo

in

on the Centre

would not

of the road because the frontagers

laid on

be much prejudiced by their being

the rural tramway

the Site. In the ca

case of

projected at Hongkong along the coast, betwe

the City and the village of

distance

of

over

Shaukiwan, a

four miles, I think it will be houses along + few

desirable, as there are but

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the road to lay the Maits at the Extreme vide,

so as to allow as wide a space as possible for the sscape of Carriages and Equestrians in the Event of horses shying and Severving.

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