AUCKLAND DEVIATION
WORK TOO EXPENSIVE. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 18. The proposal to deviate the North Auckland railway line by a tunnel under the city from Beach Road to Morningside Station has been abandoned. The Minister of Railways, the Hon W. B. Taverner, states that the project has been fully reviewed alter a perusal of reports by the General Manger of Railways. An electrification scheme for the Auckland suburban area would have’-to be adopted, including the lines between Papakura on the south and Helensville on the north at a c-ost of approximately £174,570, bringing the gross estimated expenditure of the whole scheme to £2,174,540 There would be no marked economy as a result. The figures indicated that the present traffic did not warrant this expenditure. It was unlikely that the construction of the tunnel would have an influence on the growth of goods or passenger traffic sufficient to justify such a huge expenditure.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 2
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155AUCKLAND DEVIATION Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 2
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