Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-16
.CATEWAYs TO RICHMOND
PATHS OF Mud AND RUTS
North Side Streets Arc Torn Up,
Making Passage for Motorists
Almost Impossible.
LITTLE RELIEF is PROMISED
Director Boiling Says Strikes Delay
Receipt OF Paving Matcrials-in
Meantime Travel for Residents
Draws Near Prohibitivc Stage.

Recent rains and the advent Of
freezing nights and thawinE days havo
aggravated street conditions in Rich
monds suburban districts to SUCH an
extent that many Of the rhorouEhtarcS
IN which thousands OF citizens depend
arc now ali out i,lpa ssahic. Wita
the setting in OF real winter weather
theSe citizens VIII be forced 10 make
of mud and danccrou chuCkholcS. and
TO the ruiuation o. their cars. or they
will be driven 10 patronize the street
cars and railroad trains to'the serious
delay and Inconvenience or those who
reside at a distance from the public
transportation lines.
Residents OF Clutter Park. Highland
Parli, Rarton Heights and the outlying
districts to the north OF the city per
cncri by the c!;y's delay in makinc
promised street improvements some
cars ca men fer :ht se @Ser are bee E H The S all
but impossible stat. OF the roads.
on Chanberlayne Avenue ..Ntens'on
there is particular cause for the COM
plants that are being lodged against
the city. Tha; part Of the avenue, APP
proximatcly mile in length. extend
macadamized paving 20 the improve;
county road. was torn up and .%caTat"d
about o Two months aga SoS SinGr ndr ina" me
cause OF failure 70 complete this sec
ton of the avenue, al persons who
Park from the direction OF Yellow
Tavern. Ashland and all the inter
veninS populous territory, a-c com,
PEELED to make a dotour by a side road
iilled in from the excavations on the
avenue.
Rond Now Sea of Mud.
n dry weather ihis dir, read was ,:.
i, is seq Of nud and hoies. and il IS
not infrequent that cars are stuck
IN the nire and have TO be pulled out
avoided by persons coming in from the
outlying sections only by detouring
HI mt Rosd and thers So
Beginning With The terminus o. the
long succession of cross ru;s. mud holes
ana 1'hsr spr:nE h"znIds nnt,i the
this road WAS repaired by the city. The
repairs consisted of dirt filled into the
holes; after which the roller WAS ~
on. The Improvement was noticeable
Tor about three days.
Now the condition is even worse than
i more and mo-c unccrntortahle and
dangerous. After passing I.aburnun
Avcnue the road is fair until Broad
Street is reached. a section OF it havin"
been given light coating of tar and
lgraveL-thts for the ber-.itt OF the
state fair visitors.
Pfpce Few Londx OF sand.
.Erooklend boulevard. the sole artery
through Esrton Heights 10 Highland
Park is IN al, equally disEracetuI state
OF repair. Recently q few loads Of
sand and gravel have been dumped at
its Intersection with Chamberlayne
Avenue, but the remainder OF il -
in condition that promises 10 make
travel Impossible ;is soon as ba6
weather sets in.
Barton Heights streets are in dc
plorable state OF collapse, and the res;
dents Of that suburb are threatenc,
with an almost complete stoppase o
traffic. North Avenue and Barton Ave
rue, the principal thoronghfares, ca.
be negotiated now by careful driving
but they are only dirt roads. whicl
give way and are all but bo,tomics
with the first winter rains. Simila
conditions exist in Highland pari
where the residents are praying 70
relief,
But no relief is in sight and non.
is promised for the immediate future
certainly not this winter. by Directo
Boiling, who explains that strikes now
IN progress throughout the countr,
threaten TO delay Improvement O
Richmond's streets He explains fur
ther that although contracts for ap