TWO MILES SHORTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1927, Page 9

TWO MILES SHORTER.

|PONSONBY TO KINGSLAND. BRIDGING ARCHHXLL GUIXY. COUNCIL INSPECTS SITE. To erect a concrete bridge across the Arch Hill gully, and therebr connect Great North Road, Grey Lvnn" with New North Road, Kingsland, is a proposal which is to interest the Citv Council. T°e originator of the scheme is Mr. t. W. Brmsden, a present member of the council, and he claims that if a brid-e is erected across the Arch Hill gullv at Bond >treet the distance from Ponsonbv to vehicular traffic K oinz to Kingsland would be shortened by two miles. The scheme has so interested the council that yesterday afternoon almost the whole of the members visited Bond St i eot and discussed the proposal. The bridze. Mr. Bnnsden suggests, should be a solid concrete structure on the lines of the Grafton Bridge, with a larze span to enable trains to pass beneath. Bond street is a 66ft wide thoroughfare, and running through from the New North j Road links up with Kinjrsland just above ! where the small bridge connects the ' < eat North Road with Edendale Road The idea at the back of the proposal' is to relieve the present con-estion or" i traffic in Symonds Street and Eden Terrace by providing an outlet at the j western side of the city for all vehicular | traffic the destination of which is Kings- ' land, Edendale, Morningside, or Mount ' Albert-. The erecting of such a bridge to connect the two roads would be no small undertaking, but members of the council I makin? a tour of inspection vesterdav expressed the opinion that the scheme was worth considering.