HIGHWAY BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 20, 25 January 1939, Page 13

HIGHWAY BRIDGE.

REVERSION TO RAILWAY. NGARUAWAHIA PROBLEM. The reoccupation by the Railways Dcr.art.ncnt of the bridge at Xjraruawahia, which is leased to the Main Highway* Bo«rd and serves the main south road, is regarded as practicallv certain on the duplication of the Main Trunk line between Frankton Junction and Auckland. Erected a« a railway bridge, it was taken over by the Highways Board when the Department found it necessary, because of « change in the alignment of the lines, to construct • new bridge. The traffic highway is served by the former railway bridge and an adjoining bridge, each of which are one-way connections. The full volume. *of road traffic cotiM not be carried by the adjoining bridge when the old railway bridge U taken over again bv the Railway* Department. The Public Work* Department U now carrying put surveys which, it U believed, are baaed on alternative schemes for the widening of the traffic bridge, or the construction of another bridge capable of meeting all the requirement* of traffic.