LETTERS TO EDITOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 14

LETTERS TO EDITOR

CITY EXIT VIA WADESTOWN

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In IMonday's "Post," under the heading of "Accident Hazards," you published the Hon. R. Semple's statement as follows:—"The number of accidents has been found to vary almost in direct proportion to the density of traffic, etc. . . ." The problem of today is to contend with that density of motor traffic successfully in order to avoid causes of accident through density and congestion. Has not Mr. Semple advanced another very strong reason in favour of the City Engineer's recently-published proposal of a third main entrance or exit for Wellington City through Wadestown and Ngaio? One of your recent correspondents pointed out that the necessary land for such road is already vested in the City Council, why not make use of it?

The experienced men and excellent power plant are right on the spot from the Ngahauranga Gorge job now nearing completion. We are told it is not a very big or costly work to put this new exit through Ngaio. It is hoped that the Minister of Transport will add to his many successful road safety measures this new exit, before he lets up on his "I ought, can, and will" policy, for the protection of travelling people under new conditions suddenly thrust upon us by rapidly-increasing motor traffic. Such a new exit when finished will divert considerable traffic from the Main North Road direct to the western suburbs, thus relieving Hutt Road and city access.

When some day the much-delayed but necessary horseshoe bend tunnel of approximately 4£ chains is through from Glenmore Road, as the more direct west to east route, I believe quite a volume of traffic to southern suburbs would travel via the proposed entrance to Wellington through Ngaio, Wadestown, and Wilton's Road in order to keep out of the city traffic, which will rapidly grow in density. Such a new road will therefore distribute traffic and so prevent many accidents. —I am, etc., IT CAN BE DONE. J