KELBURN VIADUCT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 83, 9 April 1931, Page 13

KELBURN VIADUCT

RISKY SPOT JUST NOW

WORK AT APPROACHES

The Eclburn Viaduct is complete save for the approaches. Residents will welcome the cleaning up of this spot which, with tho incidence of rapid traffic from quite a number of points and the unfinished footpaths, is by no means a pleasant place to pass through. Both sides of the viaduct are very risky spots just now. On the Northland side, though there are indications of the ultimate formation of a footpath on the north side of.Glenmore street,, the path is not formed, and it very rough going,.people being tempted to take to the bitumen. With Northland road and The Bigi junctioning with Glenmore street within a few_ yards of each other, and the combination of bus, motor traffic; and trams, the foot crossing of Glenmoro street is an awkward business. If one crosses to the only footpath skirting the splayed corner below Baroa crescent, it is necessary to be lively and observant, because the motor traffic over the old viaduct emerges very rapidly. . Upland road where it joins the viaduct is an equally unenviable place to walk. The road is being cut down two feet to the level of the new viaduct. It is a narrow enough road in any case for the volume of traffic, and, as the job is being done in halves, locomotive space is. very confined, the footpath having vanished. Even when this job is finished there will be none too much room for traffic, and probably some day in the future the bank will have to be cut back still further, but that is a big undertaking which will most likely have to await more readily obtained funds. For the approaches to the new viaduct to be laid all wheeled traffic will have to be temporarily diverted, and this will be done via Baroa road, the widening and buttressing of which, to enable it to carry bus traffic, is barely completed. Work on the Upland road junction with the viaduct is proceeding, and it is anticipated that all will be cleared up by the end of the month. In the meantime the new Viaduct remains merely an impressive spectacle.