CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6061, 21 April 1881, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

» REMUERA HIGHWAY BOARD AND RAILWAY INCONVENIENCE. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —When our Board improved our road at the Remuera Bridge, near Newmarket, the Engineer of the Board left a post at the extremity of the footpath between two panels of fencing, so that passengers to and from the railway could get to and from the station with greater facility, for ladies will not venture up and down a flight of 30 steps to go by rail, they prefer going by omnibus. Now, Sir, it seems to me that the railway manager and his employes, instead of studying the comfort of the people and giving every facility for travelling by railway, try to throw every obstacle in the way, thereby driving people to go by omnibus, for they have put up a three-railed fence right across the post placed for the convenience of passengers, and the reason given is that the steps are the way to the station. And not only so, but the flimsy pretext is added that they cross the line in going that way, which they are compelled to do whichever way they go. The Newmarket people are obb'ged to cross seven lines of railway, and the Remuera people two lines, or by the steps one line. If the railway was managed so that it should be realising a handsome income, there would not be omnibuses running every twenty minutes to and from New market. That is a proof at once of the enormous traffic which the railway loses through — first, the station being in the wronc; place; secondly, the great difficulty in getting to it; and, thirdly, the want of those facilities being given to the residents of Remuera, and the absurd obstructions being removed, so that ladies especially can get to the station in a decent manner.—l am, &c.. J. P. King.