PROPOSALS FOR DEVIATION

Southland Times, Issue 23610, 10 September 1938, Page 21

PROPOSALS FOR DEVIATION

SHORTER JOURNEY TO WINTON FEWER BENDS AND CURVES ON NEW ROUTE For some time past the Main Highways Board and the Southland County Council have been discussing a proposal to construct a highway deviation on the Winton road. The proposed deviation, leads from Buxton’s corner up to which the road is sealed already, east of the railway, across the Makarewa river and parallel to the railway line to join the present road north of Lochiel.

The new route, which would cost no more to construct than the sealing of the present Makarewa-Winton road, would shorten the journey between Invercargill and Winter) by one and a-half miles. The deviation would have very few bends or curves, and would be for most of the length a straight road. At yesterday’s meeting of the County Council the county engineer (Mr G. R. Milward) stated that the Highways Board wished to know whether the council would approve of the existing State highway between Buxton’s comer and the northern terminus of the proposed deviation being redeclared an ordinary highway in the event of the State highway deviation proposal being made. The board would also declare a portion of the Forest Hill crossing road a main highway and in addition that part of the Makarewa-Browns highway to where it joined the Lochiel road. Mr Milward recommended that the council agree to the board’s proposal but that it be stated to the board that the council still considered its original proposal to be the _ better one for future traffic.

The recommendation was adopted.