NEW FIRE STATION.
I read with interest a letter lay- "I/ixious"* in Friday's "Star." I know the spot well, and cannot see how a fire engine could bully or scream its way out of the fetation at rush hours. You can stop moving traffic; but try to disperse a traffic jam, and you have a harder problem. The present station is on the eide of the road on which the traffic is leaving Karangahape Road, and simply melts away. But the idea of moving across to the side on which the traffic approaches the busy intersection, and ha« to bank up at short intervals to let the Karangnlnpe Road traffic pass, is altogether too foolish. If the hoard doesn't mind having its engines blocked inside the station while the fire blazes, it is at least obvious that the traffic authorities were never consulted on the matter. In any case, why pick on a spot which is clearly destined to be a valuable business site. A fire brigade is to put out fires, not to ciigapc in business, and the station should not be in a busy centre at all. A spot near St. Sepulchre's Church, behind the Symonds Street post office, would he central, high, off the busy thoroughfares, and with easy outlet* in all directions. Has that been considered? STUPID.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 158, 6 July 1937, Page 6
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