WATERFRONT ROAD OPEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 14

WATERFRONT ROAD OPEN

T RAFFIC FROM TO-MORROW

BRIDGES NOT COMPLETED

RESTRICTED USE OF ROUTE

SPEED LIMITS IMPOSED,

Subject to certain restrictions pending the completion of the permanent bridges, the first section of the waterfront road, from Campbell's Point to Hobson Point, will be thrown open to traffic as from tomorrow. A 4peed limit of 25 miles an lioiir on the roadway and 5 miles an hour on the bridges is being imposed. The bridges, temporary structures, have only one track and require to be crossed in

low gear. / J Owing to tho state of the bridges the road is to be open only from .7 a.m. until sunset each day.

The new road, which turns inland from Hobson Point, skirts Whakatakataka Bay and climbs on to the high ground of the .Orakei suburb, will also bo brought into nse. Thus,/for the first time, a short route on a properly-constructed roadway will be. available for traffic between the city and Orakei subnrb, and thence to Kohimarania / and St. Heliers. The waterfront road has a bitumen pavement 50ft. wide and that round Whakatakataka Bay a similar pavement 30ft. wide. Full use of the now route will be possible toward the close of next year with the completion of the two ferroconcrete 'in tho embankment across'Hobson Bay'. The first of these 1 is expected to be completed within four months from now, but tho work on the other will require seven or eight months. A x furtheiy section of the Waterfront road, from Hobson Point to the Orakei sewerage tanks,'is expected to be ready for use by the autumn. To complete the waterfront drive the road will be carried to Mission Bay, there to link up with existing inland / roads. Considerable building activity at Orakei suburb during the summer is anticipated as' a result • the opening of the snort route across Hobson Bay. The owners oi' many sections bought as long ago as two years have apparently been awaiting this, event proceeding with. the. establishment of homes.