Recent wet weather suggests the question whether it would.not be possible to make pavements with grooved surfaces to carry off the vain water. The grooves would, of course, have to be set closely together and those in one paving-stong, would have to correspond with those the next. But as, we believe, paving-stones are simply cast slabs of reinforced conerete, it should be easy enough to east them in the desired form. Naturally one cannot expect the P.W.D. to tear up all existing pavements and start fresh, Rut as occasion for renewal occurs, we believe that closely grooved blocks would prove a great boon, Pavements inevitably sink in places, and then come the Inkes that we must circumvent as best we can, If paving blocks were grooved, even where they sank and prevented the vain from running off, the water would be in the grooves and the pedestrian walk comparatively dry foot on the ridges between.
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