OVERHEAD RAILWAY BRIDGES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1929, Page 8

OVERHEAD RAILWAY BRIDGES

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Every now and again the public are treated with an epistle of why the railway crossings cannot be made permanently safe by overhead bridges. The usual complaint is want of money, but the report always includes something about the usual interchange of views between the Main Highways Board and the Railway Department, and that the authorities ' are prepared to continue to make reasonable sums available for elimination and improvement of level crossings." They do not state what level crossings have been eliminated during the last financial year. In other words, the public want to know what has been done, not what they intend to do, in a reasonable period. It is time that our public leaders, including members of Parliament, took an active interest in getting something done. Most of them seem to be full of excuses, but if they would only combine together irrespective of party politics, and keep' up some persistent pressure on the Government, then they will be able to achieve some credit for accomplishing some real benefit in saving life. It is to be hoped that the new member for the Hutt electorate will be more successful va getting the Petone overhead bridge built. Certainly it is in the "talking' stage at present. No one has impressed the Railway Department with the argument that it should build "the overhead bridges on the Point Howard line th t 56,??S 6,??^ 8 from the land sales in the Hutt district m the same way as it built the other bridges in this district, it is all part of the same scheme But here again it will need political pressure to force the point, and the present byelection is the beat time to use this weapon.—l dm, etc., PRO BONO.