THE TUNNEL
. TO 181 EDITOR. Sir,—Quite an outburst of enthusiasm seems to have been -evoked in your issue of Saturday regarding, the Hataitai (or as I notice your correspondents call it, "The Eastern Suburbs") tunnel. The question somehow or other seems to be involved with that of the "appian way," though what your correspondents precisely mean by this term some of your readers are no doubt still wondering. One wag inquired of me whether the City ■Council considered that the choice of the route via Ellice street was an 'appy un ? . f What the ratepayers are likely to ask is_ whether the construction of the "appian way" is intended to be paid out of the loan money voted for the tunnel Apparently the reason which the council's engineer raises against the tunnel being made wider than the' ridiculous width proposed is on account of the extra cost incurred, but what is this compared with the cost of constructing an 80-foot highway right across one of the most congested areas in the city! It seems to me, sir, that the council is bound to obey the mandate of the people. The people have shown by their vote of the amount required that they desire a traffic tunnel for the eastern suburbs, not a convenient method of easing the present rush on the No 2 trams.—l am, etc., _ IGNORAMUS, 29Ux October. '. i
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 9
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230THE TUNNEL Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 9
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