The Hawaiian star., 1910-02-11
AGITATION FOR
WIDER SIDEWALKS
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Wall which established the Makiki
sidewalks. The other members were
for eight feet while wanted fourteen
feet, and a compromise was made on
sidewalks ten feet wide"
Mr. Campbell was here informed, on
the authority of Mr.. Wall, that the
Makiki people now regretted that their
sidewalks were not wider Resuming,
Mr.. Campbell said:
The roads in Kaimuki are only
filty feet wide and a twelve-foot side
walk on each side would therefore
leave twenty-six feet as the width OF
surface for macadamizing. In no
circumstances will the roads there
have as great an amount of travel as
the road between here and Aiea, which
is macadamized for a width of only
sixteen or eighteen feet. Travel on
Aiea road is greater than on any OF
the suburban streets of Honolulu.
Marrow sidewalks will not permit
of any parking features whatever, as
you will find the case in many places
in Honolulu. For example take Mr..
Giffard's beautiful place, where his tree
planting has entirely usurped the en-
tire ten-foot sidewalk.
THE standard width of wagons from
outside of wheels is four feet eight
and one-half inches Seldom is seven
feet exceeded and drays and automo-
biles seldom exceed eight feet An
ordinary horse and buggy can turn in
a 26-foot road, so can an automobile.
Fort street in the business section is
only twenty-six feet between curbs
with the street railway track in the
middle, yet vehicles have no trouble
in passing or turning ON that street.
"Kaimuki has thirty-four miles OF
streets mapped out and dedicated to
the public AS between 8-foot and II
foot sidewalks on that mileage, there
would be a saving in reduction OF
macadamizing surface, at five cents a
square foot including grading, of $I2,-
900 and odd. This is apart from the
enhancement of the beauties of the
district in the opportunities AFFORDED
for parking.
"Kaimuki will always be a residence
district. It's distance from the har-
Dor front ensures this. Now we want
for all residence districts to get away
from provincial ideas and look to the
beauty of environment
Wide, unnecessary and useless eX-
pense Of macadam adds in no way to
the beauties of a community and
wherever it is possible, especially in
suburban districts, to nave them 50
the sidewalks should he not less than
twelve feeC ON d 5O-fOot street and
nothing under fourteen feet on 6O-
loot street. This admits OF parking
and the growth of trees, sucn as palms,
and chimes in with the sentiment that
has been created against fences-a re-
lie OF the day when the householder
was compelled to build a high wall
or dig a moat around his dwelling to
protect him from the depredations OF
his neightbor. Wide sidewalks and
fenceless lots mean practically the ex-
tension Of a mans front yard clear
to the curb. With such conditions
our city would be one large and beau
tiful park
c. S. Desky, the lone supporter OF
wide sidewalks at the late meeting OF
the Waialae, Kaimuki and Palolo I'M
provement Club, points to the eXten-
sion Of School street as a visible ar
gumeHt against excessive width Of
roadway paving. There, in width Of
sixty feet, not more than twenty feet
is used by wheeled traffic. The result
is that the margin OF the road on
either side is overgrown with scrub
and weeds, giving a hideous appear
ance to what ought to be a beautiful
driving boulevard.
People here seem to have wrong
idea about sIdewalks,r said L. ID.
Baldwin, surveor. "They appear to
think that they will have to pave the
entire width OF prescribed sidewalk
with concrete or some other hard ma
terial.
'On the mainland the sidewalk pro-
per is now regarded as only a small
portion of the space left between the
paved roadway and the property line
This area is known as the parking
space. There will be a hard walk OF
three or four feet in width, with say
three feet next the property line, anC
whatever is left next the curb, for the
cultivation of trees and grass.
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