MAORI HILL AND ROSLYN APPROACHES.

Evening Star, Issue 22308, 7 April 1936, Page 12

MAORI HILL AND ROSLYN APPROACHES.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Surely the time has come -when something should be done to improve the dangerous, narrow lanes which mar both the important routes to these hill suburbs. The Stuart street-Albert street route leads through what must be the most dangerous little lane in the city at the top of Albert street. Here we have two almost right-angled turns to enter the lane with a sharp right-angle turn at the other end. Pedestrians have to cross the road at both top and bottom, as there is only one narrow footpath to use. At the bottom entrance is a water-trough, about 6ft from the corner, and if a four-wheeled express is standing watering horses the entrance is completely blocked. At the top end a cycle track to the Boys’ High School emerges right on the bend. Sooner or later one of the properties on either side of this lane must be purchased to eliminate this dangerous spot, so why not get on with it and. provide some useful work for unemployed during winter months? The other route is uj) Pitt street and Royal Terrace. Here it is possible to follow the terrace rounds to Cobden street and so get into the Drive for Maori Hill, or Newington Avenue for Highgate. It should not. however, bo necessary to make this detour if the narrow little one-way traffic lane off Royal Terrace was widened. At this point two properties would have to be taken over, and as one is at present a vacant section, this should be done before a house is built on this section.—l am, etc., Safety First, April 6.