TRACK ALTERATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1927, Page 5

TRACK ALTERATIONS.

NEW RAILS FOR TRAMS. TRAFFIC RESTRICTED AT CUSTOMS STREET. SECTION OF ROADS CLOSED. With the exception of trams, only greatly restricted use of the intersection of Queen and Customs streets will be allowed to vehicular traffic from Monday next until June 30. The tram tracks are to be altered. To make it safer for the large bogie trams when turning at the intersection, the whole of the system of tracks and points at the intersection is to be relaid. Some of the work of loosening the surface of the road and attending to the underground fixtures has already been done. On Monday workmen will start relaying the tracks.

Every conceivable plan has been made so that the inconvenience to traffic will be as email as possible. The relaying of the tracks will be done in sections. During next week, work will be done on the inward tracks in Customs Street West and that area will be closed to vehicular traffic. Vehicles which want to get into Queen Street from the west will either have to go up Albert Street, or down Little Queen Street to Quay Street, entering Queen Street at the bottom.

From June 13 to June 20 Customs Street East from Fort Lane to Queen Street will be closed while the inward tracks in that section are being relaid. While this work is being done, no inward bound vehicular traffic from the east will be able to go into Queen Street from Customs Street East. Vehicles will have to make a deviation through Fort Street. Commerce Street will be a temporary terminus for buses which now cross Queen Street on their way to the present terminus at Sturdce Street. While this work is being carried out, there will be no interference with up and down traffic in Queen Street, across the intersection. Up traffic will be stopped from June 21 to June 25, while the tracks to the centre of Queen Street are being worked on.

The outward tracks in Customs Street West will be worked on from June 26 to June 30 and it will be necessary to close the intersection to down traffic. It will not be possible for traffic to cross Queen Street from Customs Street East during this time.

Large notices will be placed in such positions that all traffic will have ample notice that the road ahead is closed. Special arrangements have also been made for the control of traffic As much of the work as is possible will be carried out at night.