NGAIO GORGE ROAD

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 8

NGAIO GORGE ROAD

Alternative Junction With Hutt Road PROVISION FOR ONE-WAY TRAFFIC One of the road works scheduled lor the new financial year by the Wellington City Council is a safer approach to and exit from the Ngaio Gorge Road at the Hutt Road end. Some 15 years ago there was a proposal to widen the lower end of the road, which is flanked with small cottages. In fact, the property at the corner of the Hutt Road and Gorge Road (known formerly as the Old Porirua Road) is set back to the new alignment, but it is the only one that is.

The present proposal, born of tlie largely-increased motor-car and finis traffic to Ngaio, is to provide a new road by widening out the road which led to the Kaiwarra School to the southward of the petrol station, taking it up the valley at the rear of the settlement, and over the stream, to connect with the main Gorge Road on the northern side of the overhead railway bridge. It is anticipated that the new road will be a full’ chain in width. / The provision of an alternative road will permit of one-way traffic at I hat busy part of tlie Hutt Road. If anyone is in doubt as to the traffic at Kaiwarra, the'place should be visited at about 5 o'clock in tlie evening, when the ordinary Hutt Road traffic is supplemented by buses from Khandallah and Ngaio, and all the employees of Cable and Co.’s foundry. When the road is completed all the outward traffic to Ngaio will take the new road, while 'the cityward traffic will follow the existing road.

It is understood that the provision of the new road will not deter the council from pushing on with the widening of the old road, whenever the opportunity presents itself, as it is realised that the traffic there will continue to grow with the years.