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THE INNER CIRCLE LINE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.
SIR, — The question of tho Brunswick railway
deviation having now been settled, would you
kindly allow ME apace in your columns to say a
few words respecting what is known as the Inner
Circle line, viz., the loop from Clifton-hill to
Royal Park. As originally surveyed, this line was
to cross Prince's Park and Sydney-road at a
point about 25 chains south of Park-street joining
the main Brunswick line at the Zoological
Gardens station, but in consequence of the deviation
in the Brunswick line the loop line is now being
re-surveyed to cross Prince's Park and Sydney-road
about 17 chains south of Park-street. My
object in addressing you is to draw the attention
of the Melbourne and Brunswick councils,
and the residents of the districts concerned, to
the desirableness of having the loop line taken
some distance further north, so as to join the
main line at a point near the Brunswick Town
Hall, and above tho Barkly-street station. By
adopting this course Brunswick would be brought
into immediate communication with its eastern
suburban neighbors, and tho benefits conferred
upon all would be considerable, as compared with
the trifling cost (if any) for construction of line,
besides which, the necessity for interfering with
Prince's Park would bo avoided, and the line
would cross Sydney-road at a much narrower and
more convenient spot than that proposed under
the present survey. If, however, there are insuperable
obstacles to this course, surely the line
could be brought across North Carlton nearer to
Park-street, so as to join the main line at the
Park-street gatehouse, which would obviate, to
some extent, tbe spoiling of Prince's Park. I
trust, Sir, that the members of the Melbourne
City Council, as custodians of the above reserve,
will take the initiative in this matter at once, and
before any steps are taken to let the contract for
the construction of the line, so that the council
may not again lay itself open to tlie charge of
somnolency, as levelled against it in connection
with the recent dispute re the deviation of the
Brunswick railway line. — Yours, &c.,
A BELIEVER IN RESERVES.
Melbourne, 17th August.
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