STATION ROAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 92, 21 July 1944, Page 4

STATION ROAD

FOLLOWING the flood threat last week, when the waters subsided it was found that once again, the only real damage to roadways was sustained by that long-suffering route known as Station Road. Here swift-flowing flood waters raced across carrying away surface blinding metal, eating into the foundations and generally undermining and nullifying the work of repeated replacements. Repairs will constitute the third attempt to mend over a period of less than six months. It would be interesting to know the aggregate cost over this short period, or better still to know what repairs have cost the ratepayers over say the past ten years. In view of the obvious danger to the road which must continue indefinitely until the level is raised it is hard to understand the reason why more effective and permanent steps have not been taken in the past. It would be safe to assume that the cost of raising the road has been spent many times over in the repeated repairs which it has demanded from time to time. Being the only means of access from the town to the railway station, the road is not to be considered as an unimportant side-route. It is highly desirable, even vital that it should be kept open at all times and to this end it is only necessary to adopt a firm and sound policy which will elevate the road making it all-weather and assuring the travelling public of a quick and unimpeded route to the railway station. Such a course is strongly recommended to our County administrators.