MOUNT ALBERT ROAD
MOUNT ROSKILL BOARD CRITICISED BITUMEN BREAKING UP The roping off of the bitumen-sealed centre strip and the concrete paved roadway of the borough’s side of the Mount Albert Road was one of the drastic proposals submitted to the council on Tuesday to stop the break-ing-up of this section of the route by the volume of traffic. Trenchant cirticism was levelled at the Mount Roskill Road Board for its failure to improve the other side of the road. Declaring that the council would have to act quickly in undertaking maintenance of the central bitumen strip of the road, Or. B. Brigham asserted that this section was fast breaking up under the volume of traffic it had to carry. Vehicles from Mount Roskill used the Mount Albert side of the road, but the Mount Roskill side was a mass of ruts and clay. The edge of the concrete paving was beginning to break away and unless this and tho bitumen strip were quickly repaired the ratepayers would be involved in heavy expenditure. The bitumen strip had been laid down to carry the tram-lines when extensions were made, and was not intended to carry heavy .raffic. He pointed out that because of the condition of the road there had been 16 accidents on the route in the last few months. He advised that the route should be confined to one-way traffic. Cr. H. H. Langley: We have had to fight the Mount Roskill Road Board ever since the road was constructed, and everyone of our recommendations has been flouted.
When the roping-off of Mount Albert side of the road was suggested, the Mayor, Mr. L. E. Rhodes, expressed the opinion it was too drastic. He strongly condemned the action of the Mount Roskill Road Board in not improving its side of the route, for which the board had been offered either £2 or £3 for £1 subsidy for reconstruction work by the Highways Board, bur the offer had not been accepted. The Highways Board, however, would not subsidise the Mount Albert Council in the maintenance of its side.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 11
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