ROAD DEVIATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19258, 25 February 1937, Page 4

ROAD DEVIATION

NEW WORK AT PUHA RISKY RAIL CROSSINGS •Further work in connection with the elimination of dangerous level crossings on the main highway between Gisborne and Motuhora is to be put in hand shortly, when a road deviation will be made in the vicinity of the "Lome" homestead, at Puha. A distance, of 30 chains of the old highway will be deviated from, and the work will entail some heavy excavations at the foot of the hill overlooked from the windows of "Lome" homestead. There are two level crossings! in this neighbourhood which have long been a source of concern to users of tho highway, both being so situated that visibility from either direction is decidedly limited. Though no accidents have occurred at cither crossing for many years, motorists and others using them have found it necessary to use the utmost care, and there have been several narrow escapes from collisions between rail and road vehicles.

The. amount of excavation work necessitated by the decision of the Highways Boai'd is expected to prove more substantial even than that involved in the deviation commenced spme time ago in the neighbourhood of Waikohu, where a new approach is being formed to the combined road-and-rail bridge across the Waihuka River, with the ultimate intention of constructing a new road bridge a little upstream, to which the new approach will give access.