WAITAKERE DRIVE
EARTHWORKS COMPLETED METALLING OPERATIONS PROPOSAL FOR FOOTWAYS' All the earthworks on the Waitakere Scenic Drive are practically finished and metalling is in progress on the six miles stretch between Dreamlands and Pukematekeo. However, this portion is not yet open to traffic. About 100 men are now engaged on the road and it is hoped that metalling will be completed before the end of tile summer. Some sealing may be done before then, but there are no immediate plans for this work. The drive junctions with the old West Coast-Swanson road at the foot of the Pukematekeo hill, and improvements and deviations have been effected on this road from the junction with the drive to Swanson. This section will be metalled and sealed to the same standard set for the Scenic Drive. Various complaints of the behaviour of motor traffic have been received by pedestrians using the drive. The question is now being investigated by the Public Works Department of providing footways on the Titirangi section of the drive and also near Waiatarua in order to overcome the difficulty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23196, 16 November 1938, Page 14
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