"Blind as Bats!" Reckless Motor-drivers
"I am quite satisfied that if you have sign-boards as big as this room the motorists will not see them. I have had ropes put across the main…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1925
113 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 4 of 6
Lapstone Hill Main Road Deviation Cost of £25,000
The following communication was received from the Main Roads Board, N.S.W., at Wednesday's meeting of the Shire Council:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Car Loops-the-Loop Motorist's Remarkable Escape
A [?] car, owned and driven by Mr. Hogan, of Strathfield, on Tuesday mete with an accident at Sugar Loaf Rock, near Woodford. Mr. and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Making Aldermen's Stand (Continued from Page 1.)
don't know what class of work is proposed, and we wish to got the details. The Engineer explained that he proposed to work to the specification…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Value of Good Main Road Growing School of Thought Opposed Fallacy of Arguments Against Proposal. Road Essential to Development
It may sound a great heresy to declare that the Municipality of Katoomba has very little to gain from tho construction of the Main Western…
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Cr. Locke, of the Turon Shire, considers that the Main Roads Board will not prove of any great benefit to the ratepayers, however popular…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Pumping Current From Katoomba Why the Shire Refused
Recently, as reported in "The Echo," Mayor McBride interviewed the railway authorities concerning the furnishing of electrical power for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bulk-handling Motor Spirit
Compensating for an increase in the price of tyres, there is to be a big reduction in the cost of motor spirit, if the proposals of the Vacuum…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Country Roads Use of Bitumen
In recent yours a good deal of discussion and correspondence has been devoted to the dangers of a tendency towards centralisation of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Main Road Lapstone Deviation Chamber's Objection
At the last meeting of Katoomba and Leura Chamber of Commerce, Mr. C. P. Hendry stated that he understood the Main Roads Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Main Road Blackheath Supports Katoomba Tar-macadam Favored
When Deputy-Mayor Laws mentioned at the last meeting of Blackheath Council that the Katoomba Council favored tar-macadam in lieu…
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At Wednesday's meeting of the Shire Council, the Engineer reported on the Hawkesbury Road At Springwood, as follows:—"An amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proposed New Road Opening Up Megalong.s
Recently, Ald. Rodriguez, of Blackheath mover for the cooperation of Blaxland and Blue Mountains Shire Councils and Katoomba Council in an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Main Road Water-bound or Tarred ? Council Carries Motion
At Monday's meeting of Katoomba Council, a Communication was received from the Main Roads Board, conveying the pleasing intimation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Engineer's Motor Car Unfair Rumors Circulating the Town Express Permission Given for Own Use Garage and Attention in Return
Recently Mr. G. J. Heffernan had the misfortune to be involved in a motor collision in Katoomba Street, in which he sustained serious…
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The tree-planting gang has passed Katoomba, and [?] traces of its presence in a number of ornamental shrubs set in the "V's" between the…
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Mr. Wm. Dunkerley's party, which left Melbourne on June 11, for the Northern Territory in a 2-ton "A.E.C." motor lorry, arrived safely…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cased Motor Spirit Higher Duty Proposed
It will interest motorists to learn that an attempt is being made to add another financial burden on them, in the shape of an extra duty of 2d. per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ugly Railway Embankment In Full View of Main Business Centre Why Not an Active Effort to Beautify Abolishing an Offence to Vision
AI the present conjuncture the Railway Commissioners have a gang at work, planting trees and shrubs at suitable sports in the immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Main Roads Board Gives Way Bathurst Road in Tarred Macadam Municipal Engineer Forwards his Resignation Conditions Unsatisfactory
It will be recalled Unit, in conformity with the specifications formerly adopted by the Main Roads Board, Bathurst Road was to be constructed…
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