ROAD TRAFFIC BRIDGE
REVERSION TO RAILWAY NGARUAWAHIA PROSPECT DUPLICATION OF LINE It is regarded as practically certain that the duplication of the main trunk railway line between Frankton Junction and Auckland will involve the reoecupation by the department of the bridge at Ngaruawahia, which is at present leased to the Main Highways Board and serves the main south road. The bridge was erected as a railway bridge, but was taken over by the Highways Board when the department found it necessary, because of a change in the alignment of the line, to construct a new bridge.
The former railway bridge and an adjoining bridge serve the traffic on the highway as one-way bridges. Tho adjoining bridge would be entirely inadequate to carry the full volume of road traffic when the old railway bridge is taken over again by the Railway Department, and surveys are now being made by the Public Works Department which, it is assumed, are based on alternative schemes for the widening of the traffic bridge or the construction of another bridge capable of meeting all traffic requirements.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23254, 25 January 1939, Page 12
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