THE TITIRANGI ROAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 14

THE TITIRANGI ROAD.

Sir, —I am glad "A Lover of New Zealand" and "A Lover of Titirangi" should have expressed their opinions regarding the present condition of . the Titirangi Road and the need for public action in naking this road suitable for motor traffic. Thousands of Auckland people find pleasure and recreation in Titirangi'a charming forest scenery and. the delightful bathing beaches of the Manukau, and their numbers will increase in the future. Auckland City possesses large aieas of park-lands in the ranges and the Titirangi Road is the main access to them; it also possesses still larger areas of • water-ccn-servation lands, on which it-pays no rates. Furthermore, it..uses, the Titirangi Road more frequently and more heavily than ■ any other local body. Not only do its motor-cars and its large tourist . buses travel, oyer it in ever-increasing numbers, but during the past two years or more it has used the mad for the conveyance of . heavy loads. shingle, sand, , metal, timber, etc. If- is estimated that for qa&« a lopg while over one thousand tons of material for City Council works have been carried weekly through wet weather, as well as through dry summer weather. It is this sort of work that has broken up the road so shockingly. On this account, as well as to give its people a charming holiday and scenic resort, there is an obligation on the part of the city authorities to contribute substantially to its upkeep, or to the making of a new and permanent highway. Until the city volunteers to contribute a fair share toward the cost of making a good road to Titirangi the local bodies concerned—the New Lynn Town Board, and the Waitemata Comity Council, are presented doing anything to make it a motor road, while the local ratepayers cannot, or will not, raise a special loan for the purpose. . If the Gity Council would make a fair offer of support, or the long talked-of commission would apportion to it a reasonable share in the cost, the other local bodies and the . local ratepayers would quickly make it. as good a road as my fellow correspondents desire. Titirangi Resident.