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10 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1924 5% epicardial RL ee oo fy ahem MEER ae ER edie. ad pd ES Highway Commissioner Makes Annual Report on Highways Economy and Efficient Serv- ice Are Keynote of Com- missioner's Policy By H. H. SHERER (Highway Commissioner, New Trier Township) For the past two years, as in the period preceding, the Highway Com- m.ssioner has succeeded in saving enough money from the Road and Bridge tax to pay for a mile of con- crete road. The first mile was placed on Lake avenue west from the church on Ridge road in Wilmette to Locust road. This road has since been taken over as a state aid road and paved to Waukegan road with concrete. During the past year 50 per cent aid was secured from the county for a concrete bridge over the Skokie ditch on Willow road. This bridge, Lesides being unequal to carrying the heavy loads sent over it, was costly to maintain. The county drew up plans for an eighteen foot concrete pavement based on the latest designs of the state following the extensive tests made on the Bates road near Springfield. The township, without resorting to a hard road tax (the usual method employed), financed the building of this much needed improvement which runs from the end of the pavement on Willow street, Winnetka, to the township line at Happ road a few feet east of the west line of the Chicago and North Western railway. Roads Hit by Traffic The construction of the Lake ave- nue concrete pavement by the county - imposed necessarily heavy burden on the township as the materials had to be hauled over roads and bridges not built to endure such heavy and con- stant traffic. Several roads, such as Happ, Avoca, Winnetka and Hibbard were completely torn up. The under structure of the Winnetka avenue bridge had to be entirely rebuilt. With Willow road and Lake avenue both open to heavy traffic this unusual expense will not again be neceessary. Reinwald avenue from Wilmette avenue to Locust road, after the graveling of the previous year, was reshaped and dragged and then oiled. Until late fall when heavy loads on narrow steel tires were sent over this road from one of the pits adjacent to it, this road presented an excellent surface to traffic, being smooth, dust- less and impervious to water. Prior = 10 the placing of the oil all low spots were filled with stone and rolled. The coming season will require a reshap- ing and a possible rerolling Win- netka avenue throughout, Harms road, and portions of Hibbard and Avoca roads were scarified, shaped, and rolled by county equipment in the employ of the township, the equip- ment used being larger and more ex- pensive than the township was justi- fied in purchasing for itself. The roads so treated went back into shape with little interruption from traffic and have since been maintained by the drag and a truck and man filling in small holes as thev appeared. Bring up Road Level Considerable stone was necessary on both Winnetka avenue and Hibhard road as there were many points where the road level was either below the ground on either side or at the same level. As soon as permission was eained from the countv, the township forces were sent into the town of Gross Point where the roads were all graded and in the built up sections gravel placed and dragged into the roads. Tt necessary to build a foundation in many instances and in one particu- larly bad spot 15 yards of stone was used to fill one large hole. Mainte- nance of these roads since taking them over has been almost constant until they froze just before the first of the year. The road drags were employed wherever and whenever necessary throughout the entire township throughout the year. Neither time nor money would per- mit the graveling or stoning of the whole surface of such roads as Wash- was | ington avenue, Greeley avenue and Clover road after the county consent for the maintenance of the roads was gained, which consent followed the final dissolution of Gross Point as a village. Should the situation remain as at present, it should be the endeavor of the commissioner to place these rcads in the best shape possible at the earliest possible date. Roads Tax Rate Lower It will be of interest to the tax- oayer to know that the commissioner requested and received for this year 1 reduction from 66 cents to 50 cents in the tax rate for road and bridg: purposes and believes that it should be possible to reduce this rate stil! further in succeeding years, without decreasing the amount of work donc and without hindering the plan for saving out of this tax sufficient money o build more miles of permanent road as needed. The winter of 1923-24 has been un- usual in that stone patching and drag- ring of the township roads was pos- sible to the very end of 1923 In the storms that followed the grader and lows were employed in keeping the roads free from the worst snow drifts. It has been possible to keep all the roads open even in the worst periods throughout the winter. Through the cooperation of Mr. Woolhiser and other Winnetka officials 't has been possible to continue the arrangement for getting cinders from the water works at Winnetka for the 'onstruction and maintenance of Hib- hard road north of Elm street. The heavy rains of the late fall flooded 'he Winnetka Playfield grounds west of Hibbard road and not only inun- dated this road at that point but actu- ally destroyed a section some 200 feet in length which has been replaced by crushed stone of considerable depth with top of cinders to corre- nond with the rest of the road sur- face. Solve Drainage Problem The west ditch on Hibbard road south of Lake avenue to the big east and west ditch south of Wilmette ave- nu~ was deepened nearly a foot last fall in order to take part of the water from Lake avenue so that residents on Lake avenue whose basements were flooded might be given such relief as was possible. Because of the thorough cleaning of all township ditches in the previous vear, only such work as was necessary to give better flow to the water was undertaken the past season. Next vear's work should again he planned to include thorough cleaning of all ditches and, if possible, some chemicals should be used to destroy the weed orowth in the bottoms of the ditches so that less frequent cleaning will be neceessary. Commends Tree Planting The tree planting on Hibbard road hy Mrs. Hibbard has apparently en- couraged others to emulate her ex- ample. 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