The first tube of the Yangkingpang culvert to be put under the Bund Bridge was laid on February 17. This means that the first stage of the difficult task of removing the conerete bridge has been accomplished, and that the time is now measurably near when the Avenue Edward VII (which will be the name of the new thoroughfare from The Bund to Manila Road,) will be completed. The laying of the two culverts under The Bund Bridge, which was started on the 17th by the Public Works Departments of also means the final disappearance of the Yangkingpang.
On January 19 the Municipal Council erected a large corral-like bamboo fencing which obstructs nearly half of The Bund, and since that date passers-by have been wondering what sort of work was going on within the enclosure. They could hear hammerings and noi that sounded like the falling of heavy weights, and those who peeped between the crevices of the tightly woven bamboo fence could see workmen dropping heavy weights on the concrete in order to smash it up, while other workmen were chiseling the stony material from the steel framework. have been completed, in the main at least, as far as Thibet Road (Avenue Montigny on the French side), although there will be still much work to do in straightening crooked places here and there. The whole work of turning what was a foul-smelling creek into what will be one of the finest boulevards in the Far East, is one of the biggest single jobs undertaken by the local Public Works Department, and the fact that, with all the difficultic the work is to be completed much sooner than was anticipated at first, speaks much for the efficiency of that department, Avenue Edward VII, from The Bund to Thibet Road will a thoroughfare 110 ft. wide. On either side there will be an 18 ft. footpath, while the carriageway will be 74 ft. Thibet Road to Cemetery Road will be narrower, having a carriageway of 56 ft. with footpaths averaging 12 ft. on either side. Thibet Road will be lighted with 200 candle-power metallic filo ment lamps placed on long-arm brackets on either side of the road and spaced at regular distances approximately 100 ft. apart.
The plan of lighting Avenue Edward VII has not yet been fully decided upon, and as it is now under discussion nothing definite can be said in that respect, although it is thought probable that the lights will be placed on double brackets from central street islands
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