ROUTE FROM RAMP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 11

ROUTE FROM RAMP

A MAIN CITY' ENTRANCE

NOT FOR RESTRICTED USE

The opposition of the Automobile Association (Wellington) to any attempt to restrict the use of Aotea and Waterloo Quays for Harbour Board purposes found 'support at last night's meeting of the Wellington City Council when the council had before it a letter ozi the subject from the association. .

The Mayor said that the council had always looked upon the new route as one of the main entrances to the city and a route for general traffic. He was quite sure they all agreed with the attitude of the Automobile Association. The reference to restricted usage of Aotea and Waterloo Quays had not come from the Harbour Board as such, but from the present chairman, who had contended that the road should be primarily for waterfront purposes.

The Mayor added that at the time negotiations took place between the City Council and the Harbour Board concerning the work which the City Council had undertaken there at considerable expense, the then chairman of the board had advocated that the route should be brought up to the standard of a main highway,, because when Aotea Quay was completed to the ramp there would be created an arterial road from the city to the country beyond. To depart from that in any way would be a breach of the arrangement that was entered into.

The Mayor suggested that the Automobile Association should be advised that the council agreed with its attitude, and that the council would watch the position very carefully.

Councillor W. J. Gaudin said that the council had taken over the area it had agreed to take as a street. It was a public street, serving the wharves incidentally—a through highway for public use generally.