Alternative City Exit

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 261, 2 August 1939, Page 12

Alternative City Exit

Sir, —The fact that the City Engineer fully recognizes the imperative necessity for the completion of. the Wades-town-Ngaio highway will give hope to a large body of thinking citizens. But is this enough? Will the City Council back him up and will it be made an urgent work? In these precarious days it should take preference over all other undertakings, except the actual city services. What fools we citizens would feel if the Hutt Road were blocked in an emergency or if the new cuttings in tlie Ngahauranga Gorge slipped away, as new cuttings have a habit of doing. This is not alone an affair of tlie city. The Government and the civic authorities should immediately combine to remove this menace to every man, woman and child, who may otherwise, particularly in case of an airraid, be involved in an attempted evacuation rush which would prove a debacle. This serious defect in our transport facilities is but another in- ; stance of the effect of blundering along I without any attempt at looking ahead. —I am, etc.. SUBURBANITE. ■Wellington. 31/7/39.