THE RAILWAY CROSSING.

Hastings Standard, Volume XI, Issue 5731, 11 February 1908, Page 2

THE RAILWAY CROSSING.

(TO THE EDITOR.) Sir, —This evening between 7.30 and 8 o'clock thegtneral public were held up at the Heretaimga street railway crossing for twenty minutes O'Aing to a train being stretched like a huge serpent across the street. Besides the great inconvenience and annoyance to the public, the fact of a thoroughfare being blocked in the above manner causes danger, inasmuch us the writer noticed that several people, including ladies, crossed the cattle stop, some with bicycles, and passed immediately around the rear of the train.v It is a matter of comiiMn knowledge that Heretaunga street is constantly blocked by shunting operations, and it is high time that the attention of the Railway Depal tment was drawn to the inconvenience and danger thereby occasioned to the public, and I hope that you, Mr Editor, will take up your pen on behalf of the Hastings people in this matter. —I am, &c., Pro Bono Publico. Hasting:., Feb. 10.