WELLINGTON IMPROVEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1928, Page 10

WELLINGTON IMPROVEMENTS

COSTLY ROAD SCHEMES (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 30. A special commission has for more than a year been investigating the means of access- to the eastern and western suburbs, cut off from the main part of the city by hills rising 500 to 700 feet. They have now presented a report making recommendations which will cost threequarters of a million to carry out. They include construction of a tram and traffic tunnel through the eastern hill <to/ the suburb of Kilbirnie, 2217 ft. in length, with new

roads to connect at an expense of £317,000 for the main works alone. On another side of the city, a new road across the hill is the proposed widening of Tinakori Road all the way to Karori Cemetery, and another road, with a tunnel of 500 ft. to connect Aro St. with Tinakori Road. These works would cost £114,000. In addition, the purchase of the existing Kelburn tram is recommended, with a view to duplicating it in order to provide increased traffic. As an alternative, the construction of a cable tram, from a point in Willis Street to the same terminus as the Kelburn tram is suggested, at a cost not stated.