GLENMORE ROAD

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 64, 9 December 1926, Page 8

GLENMORE ROAD

PROBLEM OF WIDENING WHERE WILL THE SPOIL COME FROM? Since the discussion on the best and most economical means of providing for the widening of Glenmore Road a month ago, no definite- advance has been made. The position is that this road—the main access road from the north to Kelburn West, Northland, and Kaiori—is too narrow to permit of any permanent improvement along that stretch flanked (eastward) by the Botanical Gardens, and its surfacing with iiot-inix cannot economically be undertaken until the road is widened by at least 50 per cent. The only way of doing this is to fill in the gully (the Botanical Gardens) which runs parallel to the road just within the boundary fence. The problem now before the City Council is to determine the most economical way of providing the spoil necessary for the filling. Two proposals are under consideration. One is to terrace the pine-clad hill above the gully (in the gardens), and. in so doing create sufficient level ground to provide for a children’s play area, and tumble the spoil into the gully by means of chutes (the simplest and cheapest method). The other is to cut awav another slice of the hill that obtrudes on to Anderson Park, and so increase the area of that recreation ground. But Anderson Park is a‘quarter of a mile away from the gully, and it would mean the conveyance of the spoil by tramway for that distance through the best part of the gardens, as Glenmore Road already too narrow’; to accommodate another tram track, it is thought, therefore, that the most advantageous means of providing the spoil

would be to decapitate the pine-clad ridge referred to, and run the spoil from the excavations direct into the gully below. A report on that proposal is to be prepared at the instance of the Works Committee. Whatever is the conclusion arrived at, the matter will have to be submitted to the council for approval. What the residents of the western suburbs have to bear in mind is that there can be no great improvement made to tramway or bus services through Glenmore Road until it is widened,and spoil has to be provided from somewhere to make that possible.