RELAYING TRAM TRACKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19677, 1 July 1927, Page 10

RELAYING TRAM TRACKS.

CUSTOMS STREET CORNER.

COMPLETION DURING WEEK-END.

Night and day for the past four weeks Auckland'!! busiest intersection, the corner of. Queen and Customs Streets, has been the scene of noisy activity while the vast network of tramway tracks, radiating in four directions, has been relaid and readjusted. Planned to a careful schedule, the work has been carried out in sections so as to cause only the minimum of inconvenience to tramway and vehicular traffic, and, in spite of broken weather, the repairs will be completed this week-end as orginally anticipated.

Every car in service crosses the intersection, making the task more intricate and difficult than similar 'work done in Eden Terraca, at the Khyber Pass RoadSymonds Street intersection, and the Wellesley Street-Hobson Street intersection. Again, the new tracks have not been laid on the old bed, as a wider sweep has been given to provide cars with a better clearance. This will enable the introduction at a later date of a wider type of car. Grey Lynn and Heme Bay ears resumed through running at the intersection yesterday, while Mount Albert, Remuera, Great South Road and Edendale cars, which were similarly interrupted, resumed through running a week ago.