AN ELEVATED RAILROAD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1429, 2 May 1912, Page 4

AN ELEVATED RAILROAD.

_-___._« ' ■■ - AUCKLAND CITY TEKMJNUS.

(By Telegraph-Special Correspondent.) Auckland, May 1. Tho growth in the railway frafiio at Auckland is at present the subject of much anxious consideration by the Ministor for Railways and tke officers of his" Department. There are difficulties enough ahead of their efforts to provide reasonable facilities for iho railway traffic, but the Department has also to doviso a means ot avoiding continual conflict between its cwu trattic and the larp vehicular traffic whioh pssso-s cvor the level crossing iu Breakwater Head. The Minister, when discussing the position yesterday, advanced the idea oi wcctiiig the railway platforms, and lines in the station yard upon twenty feet logs, so that the rood traffic «ujd pass beneath the. railways upon a level thoroughfare. Mr. Myers said tho alternative projosal was to carry the read over tho rainrajupon a bridge. Such, a. structure would require approaches live chains long, with a grade of one iu 20, and (his grade would I* a serious drawback. The bridyo and tho approaches would cost probably .4.'20,1>00. a scheme presenting none o)' these objectionable, features wan that the railway should bo. raised. Though tho work would probably l>o cosily, it might Iμ :in advantage l , as the line wight at fomo I'nt.aro date bo carried across Queen Strwt. on a high level, mid continued round the Ponsoiiliy toreslu're, mid give direct access to the Kaipavn district. T-he Minister explained that th<> proposal now being considered was that; the platform and tracks fhould be raised id feet above the- present yard level. Coniinnnieation with the platforms wouta bo atl'orded by elevators and stairoaws. Tho Minister added that (he subject wan merely under consideration, and many questions would have lo.be docMtd before any echemo could be undertaken*