PROPOSED NEW ROAD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 8

PROPOSED NEW ROAD

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The Hutt County Council, and Councillors Dyer and Blakely in particular, are to be commended for their decision to approach the Main Highways Board to consider a scheme for continuing the Western Hutt road northwards through Hay wards, bridging the Hutt River, and ultimately joining up with the main east road at Silver-stream, so that should the Taita Gorge become blocked, traffic could be-diverted via the Western Hutt road. Whilst tendering: my thanks to the County Council for taking, the initiative in this vital matter, might I suggest that the proposed now road and bridge be constructed wide enough for all traffic and be treated as part of a new main highway by continuing it southward through Haywards, crossing the Hutt lliver with a wide traffic bridge, probably near Huse's Farm, and linking up in an easterly direction with the Main Hutt road." • This scheme would cut out the dangerouk narrow bottle neck of the. Taita Gorge, which, owing to the narrowness of- the road, the river's continbal -erosion and tho ever-impending danger of landslides from the skirting hillside, obviously can never be made a safe highway to carry the enormously increasing heavy traffic that passes through it, and which at present is the only means of direct road communication between the Wairarapa, the Upper Hutt Valley, and Wejlington City: With the great amount ;of unemployment, it is sincerely huped.that the Main Highways Board and the local bodies concerned will get busy immediately with some such scheme as proposed by Councillor Dyer, and which'if carried out under the No. 5, or any other plan, would absorb many of the unemployed hi the Hutt Valley giving much needed relief and obtaining a good return for any money thus spent.—l am, etc., '. ■ L.-C. SMITH, ' .'■ ■ Silverstream.