INSPECTION BY BOARD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 349, 2 May 1935, Page 5

INSPECTION BY BOARD

RAILWAY BRIDGE ON DOUGLAS SADDLE ROAD. In response to representations made by the Stratford County Council the Government Railways Board on its way from Stratford .to /Hamilton yesterday stopped between Douglas and Huiroa to inspect the railway bridge that crosses the road over the Douglas saddle. The supports of the bridge narrow the usable portion of the road to an extent that the spot has become widly known as something of a trap for motor traffic. There is a sharp bend on each side of the bridge and s [number of occasions cars have

swung round the corners simultaneously and met under the bridge. Representations have been made by the county council and Farmers’ Union to the Railway Department, which has so far taken no action. The chairman of the council, Mr. T. R. Anderson, and the engineer, Mr. J. W. Spence, were present when the board made its inspection and, in pointing out the dangerous nature cf .the bridge, Mr. Anderson stressed (he fact that the county had no control when the bridge was erected and it was certainly not the fault of the county that such a danger spot existed.