DANGEROUS CORNER.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19715, 4 September 1929, Page 8

DANGEROUS CORNER.

INSPECTION* BY TRAMWM BOARD. M<-..,.. .f. Wo*!, W. Hayward. find W. J. Walter, representing the ChristchurHi Tramway Board, met members cf the Arjtn.ii Association a* Page'- road and Breeze's road interaction on Monday to discuss the request of th'; Association that this iattrsfction r*> made a compulsory stop for cxprc-s cars Mr J. Longton. chairman of the United Burgesses 1 Asfcociation, was also present. Tiift danger of the corner to school children, oiring to the acute angle at r.hkh tram.-; crossed it. was pointed out bv Mr S. F. Xapper. traffic inspector for the Hcathcote Conntv (VmneiJ. It was the wish of the BurAssociation that the corner be made a compulsory stop for express tram-, and aNo that the tram rails he altered from their present position to the centre of the road. It was hoped to have this work clone hefore the completion of the concreting of Pases road 'r,v the Main Hichwavs Board. Mcvirs Waller and Hay ward agreed to recommend to the Board that the f-peed of Tram.-.- crossing this intersection he altered to lo "miles an hour. The members of the Board were uni hie to aKr<=<> that the earner be made v. compul-ory stop. They were in f;Tour of the position of the tram rails altered to the centre of the road, hnt. thl- roi.ld not H» carried ont for "v<--n year-, v. hen the tracks tvou'd !je r^ncwei