NEW CITY OUTLET

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 165, 15 July 1942, Page 4

NEW CITY OUTLET

PROPOSAL REVIVED

USE OF TUNNEL SPOIL

I The claims of a new traffic outlet from the city to a share of the spoil from the Albert Park tunnels are advanced by Mr. N. R. w. Thomas who five years ago advocated the a route from the foot Parnell Rise to Miclclleton Road Remuera, using the old Parnell raiway tunnel to provide an easv gradient He declares that some viingestion in Broadway Newmarket, will be a matter of after n the W w!" traffi ° increases a g ai n .Recalling his original pronosal Mr Thomas said to-day that a consider: able amount of earth filling would be involved, and the operations now in progress under Albert Park could provide a portion of the materia at moderate cost. The suggested roadway could link up with g£os Street, near the entrance to CaHnw Park, and follow the line of the railway embankment on the Parnell side to the northern entrance to the W tunnel, which was temnm«lu PPed as an air raid shelter! Beyond the tunnel the road mniri ton 6 Rnn? Urteh l direction to Middle- & h ,t Ve clt^ U a'S§ ;t a , of the scheme he sairi w/dtomim* SS fo r r falt a t n raffic° Uld °be The spoil from Albert Pan.- ,v wm®&s ?ua«r,y P „TscoS\n^ui n^ eS t hl total quantitv from clay, the oftonl. bGing estimated a t thousands