MAKARA COUNTY ROADS
ATTEMPTS TO COPE WITH HEAVY TRAFFIC. A Dominion reporter was informed yesterday that the Makara County Council is doing its utmost to see that the main roads' in the county are brought up to a standard sufficient to carry the present heavy motor traffic. The survey of /the Johnsonville-Porirua road, a distance of five miles, has already been completed. Originally intended to be prepared for a 18ft. wide bitumen surface, the survey lias been as for a 24ft. width. According to the survey the steepest grade for any part of that road will be 1 in 17, wliile no curve is to be of a less radius than two and a half chains.
It is thought that the Government will find it necessary to bituminise the surface of the road from Porirua to Pareniata taken over by them. The October flood scoured portions of the Ngahauranga Gorge-Johnsonvillo road, but it is not now in a very bad condition. The Makara Countv Council is approaching the authorities as tn ways and means of effecting furl her improvements in connection with this TO t
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1925, Page 10
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185MAKARA COUNTY ROADS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1925, Page 10
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