WHEN?

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 10

WHEN?

NEW RAILWAY STATION

DANGERS OF TRAFFIC.

The /dangerous state .of the .'. traffic at Lambton Quay Station was strewed by. Mr. H. Shortt on behalf of the Wellington Automobile Club's deputation to the City Council's Bylaw Committee yesterday afternoon.. There were usually, he, said, from five to twenty-five buses puked! there, besides the ■ trams,- and the ordinary vehicular traffic, and to make matter*; worse, there- was an electric light_pole. right in the middle o£ the fairway. There had. been one. fatal accident there this' week, and he thought that if something was not done immediately there would be other serious accident* at that point. He, suggested that some relief should be given by the construction of an overhead bridge br subway, for there would be congestion, at this point as long as Wellington «h; Wellington. Certainly the worst - condi-" tions in New Zealand existed there,: because practically the whole of the railway public had to pass through that crimped', space, which was much too .narrow to: serve them. ' . - ;-' •' -...',■ , •' The chairman of the committee, Coun-; cillor M. F. Luckie, said that ah overheat bridge or subway at that point was outside the range of practical politics. Was,' it not known that there was going. to be; a new station—at least one had been pro-1 mised for the last twelve or fourteen years-' —that would enable the traffic to be hah-; died very much more-conveniently? '■".- ■'," The chairman's reference to the, long, overdue fulfilment ,of ; the promise of 'a.'new station raised a general ripple of laughter, and one member of the deputation was heard to murmur• under his. I breath: "It may be for years, but it may be for ever." . , ' - .»