A TRAFFIC PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 17 April 1917, Page 6

A TRAFFIC PROBLEM

WHAT WILL BE DONE AT ■ TENAY PLACE? . So great is the; strain on that busyj junction of tramway sections .at tb.o eastern end of G'ourteuay Place thati sooner or later the whole scheme wilt have to be altered. It either nieand that the plantation of palms and shrubs will have to be sacrificed for the expansion of the waiting-shed accommodation and possible alterations in ttos lines, or the place jwill be abandoned altogether in favour of another scheme) that will Temove the press of traffic] from the street altogether. How this can be doue has been evolved by the City Engineer and Tramways Manager (Mr. W. H. Morton). Between thei northern end of Kent.and Cambridge! Terraces and the Queen's Statue is aj strip' of grassed reserve, divided by ai broad asphalt path. Mr. Morton's ideai —at present it is only an. idea—to prevent congestion is to bring the doublet line of tram rails from Kent Terracei into the middle of the reserve at ai point a little to the north of the Statue, and continue it in that line, until it sweeps naturally into Courtenayj Place. The intention in so doing. is to divide up thV waiting crowds as much ae possible. On either' side ofl the double track within the present! limitations of the reserve would bei room for two large waiting sheds, one on.each side of the track, which would! divide the people waiting for outwardbound; cars' from those waiting for! those bound citywards, and both crowds would be removed from a congested! thoroughfare to a place that is part oS a reserve, and consequently not used) to a very great extent. As far as Oriental Bay patrons are concerned, it is" suggested that they should be separated as well, and accommodated with) an island waiting-room of their own in Clyde opposite the Zealandia; Private Hotel,, which station would] serve also to divide the whole of vehicular and motor traffic to and from the bay.