This image is from the City of Sydney's Sydney Streets exhibition : http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/SydneyStreets
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World leader By 1912 the City Surveyor thought that the city had ‘the largest woodblocked area in the world owned by one municipality’. Although this method of road building was not used after 1932, repairs and relaying of woodblocks continued until after World War II, for it was a durable form of road. In 1934 the City Engineer presented graphically the types of roadway pavements and the relative amounts laid on Sydney’s streets. Dusty dry macadam roads dominated Sydney’s streets well into the twentieth century.(image:City of Sydney Archives, CRS 42/4, City Engineer’s Annual Report, 1934) |