LEVEL CROSSINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 2

LEVEL CROSSINGS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I notice in your issue of Saturday last the level crossing at Longburn is, among them, to be eliminated by means of an overhead bridge. I am somewhat- puzzled. Wliat is there about the said crossing that singles it out for urgent attention ? Is it any more dangerous than the ten level crossings in this city? Do the trains crossing there hold up more traffic in a day than is held up by almost every train at our Post Office crossing? Do the engines whistling annoy more people than the engines traversing Main Street ? I stood on Main Street near the Post Office the other day whilst a long goods train slowly steamed across the Square and down Main Street, and I marvelled at the forbearance of the residents of this city, and wonered how much longer we are to put up with the nuisance, the danger, the smoke, the noise, etc. What has become of Mr liodgens’s scheme to sink the line ? "Whether the line is removed to Boundary. Road or sunk, one thing is certain—it is long overdue for urgent attention. One of the worst things that ever happened in this progressive city was the stoppage of the deviation seven years ago; and the removal of the railway line, either by tunnelling or shifting, would he one of the best things that could happen to us. —I am, etc., NEMO.