Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 2, 6 November 1901 — Widen King Street. [ARTICLE]

Widen King Street.

We call the attention of our Superintendent of Public Works to the dangerous condition of that part of lower King street beyond Liliha street, where the contractors of the Honolulu Rapid Transit Company are tearing up the middle of the road and piling up all the dirt and debris on the makai side, leaving only about five or six feet between the tracks of the Hawaiian Trartiways Company and the open ditch of the new electric line. Only a few days ago a lady and her children driving into town narrowly escaped serious injury by running against another carriage, but escaped, luckily, with only -a broken wheel to their carriage. Condemnation proceedings should at once be instituted against the Dowsett property for the widening of that part of the only outlet to Palama and ICalihi, where hundreds of people are daily compelled to pass at the risk of life and limb. Some arrangement amicable to both parties should be immediately atended to by the "Executive and lessen the risk that the pViblic is daily exposed to while the competing road corporations hold forth' their monopoly of the public highway. We hope that Mr. Boyd will see that something is done as soon as possible towards that end before the electric cars are in running order and the danger increased twofold.