RE: Dunedin: what a difference a few years makes! - 2
Donald Galt
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:37 PM
On 13 Nov 2002 at 6:19, Brent Efford (at long last enjoying a dividend from a
book sent me) wrote:
Living in a city whose chief engineer at the beginning of the 20th century
couldn't look at a street without wanting to level it, or a hill without
wanting to tear it down (his culminating achievement was to lower a square
kilometre or so of topography by anything up to more than 20 metres) I get some
perverse satisfaction in seeing that the same sort of thing could occur even in
little old New Zealand.
Though my "now" picture was taken in January of 1962, I should have pointed out
that the regrading of Stuart Street had been accomplished upwards of a decade
earlier. It is shown on the NZMS street map of Dunedin dated 1 March 1954.
Though it must have been very new at the time, in view of the fact that the
Kirkland Hill trolleybus line first went into service on 29 Aug 1954.
One of these days I'll post an excerpt from a 1:63360 topographic map showing
the streets as they once were (though not, unfortunately, sufficiently detailed
to show all the ups and downs of the Kaikorai cable tram).
Don
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book sent me) wrote:
I had often wondered about the changes that must have taken place to
convert the Highgate cable/electric crossing (as it was until 1936) to
the current underpass, but never appreciated how much the rest of
Stuart St had also been changed. Must have been quite an engineering
job!
Living in a city whose chief engineer at the beginning of the 20th century
couldn't look at a street without wanting to level it, or a hill without
wanting to tear it down (his culminating achievement was to lower a square
kilometre or so of topography by anything up to more than 20 metres) I get some
perverse satisfaction in seeing that the same sort of thing could occur even in
little old New Zealand.
Though my "now" picture was taken in January of 1962, I should have pointed out
that the regrading of Stuart Street had been accomplished upwards of a decade
earlier. It is shown on the NZMS street map of Dunedin dated 1 March 1954.
Though it must have been very new at the time, in view of the fact that the
Kirkland Hill trolleybus line first went into service on 29 Aug 1954.
One of these days I'll post an excerpt from a 1:63360 topographic map showing
the streets as they once were (though not, unfortunately, sufficiently detailed
to show all the ups and downs of the Kaikorai cable tram).
Don
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