DEFINITION OF CARRIAGEWAY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 12

DEFINITION OF CARRIAGEWAY

Request By Roads Board

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 22. The National Roads Board will ask the Government to amend the National Roads Act so that the board will be responsible only for the maintenance of that section of highways expressly used for the passage of vehicular traffic. If the Government meets the request and brings down amending legislation, the maintenance of areas on roads reserved for metered parking and ordinary authorised parking will not be subsidised by the board. At- present, section 30 of the act stipulates that the board is required to, subsidise construction of the carriageway. The meaning of carriageway is not defined, and to clarify its responsibilities, the board has decided to recommend that “carriageway” be defined as that part of the road or street designed and used specifically for the passage of vehicular traffic.

The board will ask that it be given full discretionary powers in deciding what part of a road or street is used for the actual passage of traffic. Under these powers the maintenance of areas set aside for authorised parking oi metered parking on each side ol a road or street will not be subsidised by the board. The Minister of Works (Mr Watt) who is also chairman of the board indicated at a meeting of the board on Friday that he was in favour of the act being amended.