WESTERN ACCESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 10

WESTERN ACCESS

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BOWEN STREET TO SYDNEY

STREET

Though there has been a long delay —years from the first moves and a delay of some months on account of legal hitches lately—in the commencement of work upon the driving of a shorter roadway from Bowen Street to Sydney Street and Tinakori Road, the hurdles and obstacles are out of the way now and r. start will be made with construction within a week of so. Altogether eleven houses, the old Museum building, and stores formerly used by the Museum people will be removed to make the full scheme of development possible, but the way is pretty well clear for the formation of the through roadway. This will turn to the right at the top of Bowen' Street, hard against the corner of the old Museum, and will skirt the cemetery slope to meet Sydney Street below the junction of the upper and lower roadways. A second roadway, of lesser width and for local traffic only, will branch off from the new roadway, but Museum Street and a part of Sydney Street will be closed j and later thrown into the land about the Parliamentary Building and the J new State buildings to be erected in the future on the old Museum site and adjoining land.

The plans for development of. this new area (formed by Museum Street, the Museum site, and the land at present occupied by some of the dwellings marked for demolition) have not been announced in detail, but one of the main buildings/is to be. Broadcasting House, for which, it is understood, plans are well ahead.

The road formation work will entail heavy cutting and filling to obtain the wide roadway required for road traffic and two-way tram tracks upon an even and easy graded and probably a good many months' work, will be done before a start can be made with the laying of tram tracks. Still, Karori and Northland have waited the best part of twenty years for a shorter route, and now that it is definitely on the way they feel better about it.