Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-15

Iout or accurate Quantities obtained, a
street system must be designed and
agreed upon which viii comprehend
not only the first unit, but the entire
area Of swamp TO he reclaimed. To
this end a street system has been de.
signed as shown Oh the accompanying
! plans, which cornprehends all the wet
Hands included between King street,
McCully street, Kalakaua avenue and
Kapahulu road. and drainage system
/ designed to FIT Il. g.. ..
There are Several requirements that
must be met by an ideal modern street
system. Some OF these are as follows:
II must be symmetrical system
which is not confusing. The system
which best suits this requirement. is
a rectangular system II must allow
the land adjoining the streets to be
cut into lots as economically as pos
sible II must be capable of econo-
mical street improvements in the way
OF paving, trees. etc. It must be laid
out with view to giving each lot the
best possible exposure. Ii must dis
tribute the traffic. and, probably most
important, II must allow for effective
drainage and sewage disposal. si -.
In the proposed system. advantage
has been taken Of the fact that King
street and McCully street are at right
angles This furnishes logical base
for the system OF streets The pro-
posed streets are laid out parallel to
these two base streets, the street run
ming into Kalakaua avenue being forty
C40D feet wide and two hundred and
forty feet (240) center to center, thus
allowing two rows of lots, each one
hundred (l00) feet deep between
streets. These widths may be varied
without impairing the system. At
right angles to these streets are the
main thoroughfares, fifty (S0) feet
wide and about FIVE hundred and fifty
t550y feet apart, so spaced as to in
tersect about every third narrow
street at Kalakaua avenue. The mar
row streets on which the bulk of the
houses will front are laid out in exact
,ly the direction of the prevailing
wind northeast. This allows the
breeze to sweep the full length Of
each street giving each lot the bere-
fit of II, which is very important
consideration in these fat lands.
This makes Kalakaua avenue the
main boulevard of Waikiki diagonal
street intersecting all other streets as
1T should Thus the enormous traffic
coming down Kalakaua avenue will
be diverted into the various main
throughfares at their functions with
Kaiakatia avenue, being from thence
diverted into the narrow streets for
which it is destined. In all we'll laid
cut modern cities the main street is
on a Diagonal precisely like Kalakaua
avenue, feeding a rectangular system
on each side. Two well known exam
pies are Pennsylvania avenue in Wash
ington. and Market street in San
Franchco. 4 81. !
In the matter of drainage this is the
most feasible system. - !
The paving is simplified by this sys.
TEN, because the street intersections
except at Kalakara avenue are all
rectangular, which is the easiest con-
dition for making a good intersection.
At Kalakaua avenue will occur the
junction of three streets, making a
good turning space.
From the point Of view of the whole
swamp land this is the only logical
system, and OF course, in reclaimifg
THE small section under consideration
that end should be borne in mind.
The only other system which would
be considered by any one would be a.
system OF streets at right angles to
Kalakaua avenue l1asntch as Kala-
kaua' avenue is a very crooked street,
this would be impossible and the only
way to approach 1t would be to run.
them at right angles to an assumed
line taken as the average direction
Of Kalakaua avenue. This would make
very bad intersections with both Nc
Gully street and King street and
WOULD make the drainage much more
difficult and the cost Of the reciama.
ton greater. In the first unit, at Feast
one. and perhaps two more drains
would be necessary and the fill would
have to be deeper. The first drain
instead of draining rectangular strip
like all the others, would have to drain
an enormous triangular piece of land,
which would make a tremendously
large and expensive drain necessary
and also raise the necessary grades.
thus increasing the cost of sfilL
Volume Of Fill. It KsF
The volume Of fiji depends upon
the grades established which, in turn,
are selected to secure the necessary
drainage. The placing of the streets
with a corresponding system OF. drain
age, and the resulting grades of fill
will materially affect the amount Of
fill ana the saving effected by a good
arrangement of streets will offset the
cost of the drains. With the street
system and the drainage, system pro-
posed, the volume of I'LL has been
computed to be approximately 3fS, 200
cubic yards apportioned ais follows:
Hawaiian Dredging Company, So, 800
cubic yards; Ahrens & Bowler, 122,-
500 cubic yards. j. A Magoon, $4,000
cubic yards; A. A, Young, 109,3o0 GU
bic yards; Queen Emma Estate, 1900
cubic yards.
Cost.
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