OUT-OF-DATE ROADS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 8

OUT-OF-DATE ROADS

SURVEYS IN PROGRESS

The Main Highways Board is at present looking into the problem of State roads that were constructed some years ago, but are now out of date because of the advances made in modern traffic. In various parts of New Zealand there are roads carrying a big volume of traffic, but there is the Broblem of congestion because the roads are not wide enough or there are too many sharp corners, or the grades are too steep in places. If these roads were constructed today various improvements would be incorporated in them and the_ ob.iect of the survey is to see if this can be done.

With this object in view a survey is to be made of the road through the Ngahauranga Gorge and Johnsonville. It does not follow that work will start at an early date, but if the board sees that improvements can be effected they probably will be made some time in the future. When the highway round the foot" of the Paekakariki Hill is completed the volume of traffic through the Gorge road will be greatly increased.