ROADS & WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 9

ROADS & WEATHER

SURFACING WORK HELD UP

During the weekend warnings were given by the Automobile Association to motorists to watch carefully, particularly when driving at night, for slips and slides on Wellington roads. None oi .hese were serious, and long hours of work by Public Works and Highways workers on Sunday and yesterday' cleared running surfaces. Today, the association statea, all roads about Wellington are just about back to normal, with the exception of the Taita Gorge road, which has been closed to all traffic for many weeks by slides from high up on the face made when the road-: way was cut back from the river bank. There were numerous small slips on to pathways and roadsides in the suburban areas, but none upset traffic. The extraordinary spell of wet weather has set back the sealing and resurfacing season by many weeks and has given roading authorities a good deal of concern over maintenance. The Hutt Road is a case very much in point; so saturated is the foundation that the surface is more rapidly and seriously knocked about by traffic, but no more than purely temporary repairs can, under the conditions, be carried out. A new sealing coat is to be laid down over the full length from Ngahauranga to Petone, hjut the Main Highways Board must wait, while the surface is being knocked about further, for drier weather* and considerably warmer temperatures. At any rate, no one can complain about dust nuisance.