RAILWAY ACCOMMODATION AT ELLERSLIE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 187, 7 August 1914, Page 8

RAILWAY ACCOMMODATION AT ELLERSLIE.

For some time -tpaetf-tie. pkrelie Teeidente, with the support of the Town Board, have been petitioning the Railway Department to provide better pTOvision for getting <m and off the station platform, and a largely-eigned petition was forwarded, which favoured a subway at the eolith end of the station. As the result of the railcway authorities having decided to -widen the ramp, .instead of a subway, a meeting wae held in the Parish Hall, EUerslie, in order to again bring the matter forward. Mr. G. Wilkinson (chairman of the Town Board) presided, and the following resolutions were unanimously carried:— "Thai this meeting of residents of- Ellerslic and surrounding districts, who are daily msere of the train service, beg to respectfully though emphatically pro-' teet again the decision of the Hon. Minister to widen the ramp approach from the north end of the Ellerslie railway station, in lieu of .providing a subway to and from the south end of the station, thereby depriving some two-thirds of tlie Unere -ot the train service from participation in direct ingress and egreaj to the station. This meeting would respectfully "point out to the Hon. Minister that since the railway station was .built the Government has built seventy houses south of the station, and to the occupants of these houses the question of direct ingress" and egress is of vital importance. Apart from this matter, general settlement south of the station-lias progressed considerably, and all this has a bearing on the question. Tluo meeting is of the firm opinion that shonld the- Minister agree to promise a subway within a reasonable time at the south end of the station, then the present width of the ramp at the north end would suffice for the next ten years, seeing that the traffic would foe split up in the proportion of two-thirds using the subway,

and one-third the ramp going to and from jthe station. The position at present is that users of the railway from the south end of the station have to practically make'a circle' to get to the platform." Aleo: "That this meeting draiires to draw the Bon. Minister's attention to' the fact that the Labour Department have some' thirty-five acres south of the station (between the station and the South Road), on which it is proposed to build workers' homes. When these homes are built it will become absolutely imperative to provide a eubway approach from this locality to prevent the necessity of these occupants making a detour of practically half a mile to get to the station by the present ramp."