PROPOSED DEVIATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19106, 29 August 1936, Page 4

PROPOSED DEVIATION

NORTHERN HIGHWAY WAIKOHU ALTERNATIVES It is anticipated that plans covering the proposal to deviate the main northern highway at Waikohu, in order to eliminate tTie use of the existing railway oridge by highway traffic and also to do away with level crossings in that neighbourhood, will be forwarded to Wellington next week from the Gisborne office of the Public Works Department. The scheme referred .to in the letter received by the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce yesterday has not yet been completed, it is understood, this proposal being one of two or three in respect of which the Public Works Department was asked to submit plans and estimates for consideration by the Main Highways Board. The cost of the proposal, which includes about a mile of new road formation and the erection of three new traffic bridges, will be no insignificant item, and there is also the question of access to Poututu Valley to be considered. If the highway is formed on the line indicated by the chairman of the Highways Board, the. Poututu road will be isolated, and as the existing suspension bridge is used by a. number of school children from the Poututu Valley, alternative access will have to be provided for this and other traffic when the old suspension bridge is condemned.