NEWMARKET'S TRAFFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 10

NEWMARKET'S TRAFFIC.

"COUNCIL NOT ASLEEP.

SCHEME FOR NEW ROAD.

RELIEF FOR BROADWAY.

"I win guarantee that, with the new frontages it will create, a new road can be made without cost to the ratepayers," said Mr. H. J. Cooper, at last night's meeting of the Newmarket Borough Council, commenting on a proposal to form a new route to run parallel with Broadway.

"Auckland's traffic problem has certainly been the subject of much recent discussion. There need he no fears that the Newmarket Council are asleep on the matter," said the Deputy-Mayor. Over one-third of the traffic which now passes through Broadway would be taken by the new road. This route would branch from Manukau Road at the old Newmarket School site, and would run in a line with Broadway, from which it would be separated by about the same distance as there now is between Broadway and Osborne Street. It would then cross Kbyber Pass, take in the new overhead railway crossing, and rejoin Manukau Road at the Parnell end of Victoria Crescent. Not only would the scheme lessen the traffic along Broadway, it would make a good wide thoroughfare, with many entirely new frontages. Business opportunities thus created, would be considerably increased. Station Street, of which the end nearer Broadway is now much narrower than that nearer Oowhurst Street, would be made a uniform width by cutting back the frontages to the narrow end, on the side nearer Kbyber Pass. Three Routes to City. Bringing the scheme into operation would provide three routes to the city, Broadway, Kbyber Pass and the new road. Most of the traffic which now comes from Onehunga and the Great South Road would take the new road, and either join Manukau Road further on, or turn into Khyber Pass, leaving Broadway free to trams from Onehunga, Great South Road, and Remuera, and traffic from Remuera Road. Then too, there would be practically no chance of traffic jams between the new road and Khyber Pass, for between these two thoroughfares, there would be five new

routes. From the new road along Mortimer Pass, Morrow Street and Eden Street, each of which runs into Gillies Avenue, and from the new road along Station Street and Arthur Street, each of which runs into Crowhurst Street.

At present there is an awkward double right-angle from Crowhurst Street into Gillies Avenue. The scheme would include cutting one corner, and joining the two roads with an easy curve. Most of the other corners at the intersections of Btreets nearby would also be rounded. Old Buildings to Go. Only eight of the buildings between Morrow Street and Khyber Pass would need to be demolished if the new road is put through, and nearly all of these are old wooden houses which, in any event, will soon be coming down to give room for the erection of modern business premises. Between Mortimer Pass and Morrow Street, where the route would be curved, it would cut right through the premises at present occupied as workshops by Hardley, Ltd. A building which stands opposite the small reserve in Broadway, at the corner of Khyber Pass and Victoria Crescent, and, which is occupied by Johnston's Tyre Service, as. a tyre service station and motor garage, would also have to be cut away. There seems to he little doubt that when the proposal is voted upon by the ratepayers it will be carried. As one, the Newmarket Borough councillors are in favour of the scheme, and many of them are of the opinion that it will be one of the most important of its land ever thought of in Auckland.