SUBURBAN CORNER

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 2

SUBURBAN CORNER

Moxham Avenue and Taurima Street REQUEST BY MOTORISTS After an agitation lasting over years, the City Council took steps to acquire the property and set back the building on the corner of Aloxham Avenue ana Taurima Street (which leads to the Hataitai traffic tunnel), in order to give increased visibility to all east-bound motor traffic. For that action the public were grateful, as visibility unproved, but while the building was set back, and a wider angle of sight (ireated. the footpath at the same corner remain ed w’here it was, and the corner of the footpath projected about 22ft. from the building, so that no ground had been gained for easement of the corner as far as motor traffic was concerned This matter was brought before the tramways and electric lighting commit-, tee of the Wellington City Council on Tuesday by Messrs. E. Paliser and W. A. Sutherland, representing the Wellington Automobile Association Air. Palliser explained how the benefits of the setting-back of the corner building had not been extended to the street, and that cars moving out of Taurimu Street and bound nonihward for Hatai tai had to swerve out almost to the middle of Aloxham Avenue to get round, and that if two tramcars were at the Hataitai stopping place, the rear of one of them was opposite this corner, and therefore in the way of Hataiiai-bound traffic. He suggested that the corner of the footpath should be splayed well back, and that the stopping place for tramcars be changed to a point a little nearer the corner. He represented that while the setting-back of the corner shop had been a good thing, it had not been of great benefit to motorises. Mr. K. E. Luke, city engineer, and Air. Al. Cable, tramways manager, are to consult over the matter of easing the situation at this corner.