NEW DEVIATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23286, 3 March 1939, Page 11

NEW DEVIATION

HENDERSON VALLEY CROSSING ELIMINATED ROAD AT THE TOWNSHIP When a deviation of the Henderson Valley Road now constructed has been metalled and sealed it will be unnessary for traffic turning into or from the main northern highway to pass over a railway crossing that it considered highly dangerous. It is likely that metalling and sealing will not involve more than two or three weeks' work and tenders which close next Tuesday

have been called by the Public Works Department. The Henderson Valley Road starts from the northern highway and turns at right angles, running parallel with the railway line past the main shopping and business portion of Henderson and the railway station until it reaches the junction of several roads, where it crosses the railway track at right angles and continues up the valley. The starting point of the deviation is north of the present junction of the Henderson Valley Road with the northern highway. It passes under an existing railway bridgei and runs across country diagonally until it connects with the Henderson Valley Road, which is a main highway. The length of the deviation is about 30 chains and while it represents a straightening of the road, a fairly substantial shortening of distance and the elimination of a railway crossing, it has the disadvantage from the aspect of a section of Henderson residents that it cuts out the main business section of the township.