LAKE TERRACE BOTTLENECK

Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 163, 11 March 1955, Page 4

LAKE TERRACE BOTTLENECK

— yii- MeKinnon's snggestion appears to be a reaily splendid soltttion to the Bo rough (Rouncil s prob-* lem, and I would respectfully suggest that; the Council call on its town planning consultant for a report. The mai n highway from the Outlet Gate to Edgewater is probably the , ' O ' ■ ,-0 iv .) V V,;-..

tween Auckland and Wellington, hau ing a shocking surface, being extreinelv dangerous, as there is an exti'eniely heavy fiow of traific and little provision for parking. The State of this stroteh of the highway retieets no ci-edit on the township of Taupo. The pattern of Taupo's future isj now beginning to show itsell', and it 1 appears to my simple mind that] from the point of view of intelligentl town planning the development and] beautifying of Taupo should startl from the l'nain highway and the] Lakefront. Perhaps the prohlem is | too coinplex. — I am, ete.,

"BATTLB (TU'ISEH." I

Xofe: Our correspondent is ineiTorj in assuming; that the Taupo I >orough| rouncil' is involved in the questionl of widening the Lak(» Terrace liottle*! neclc. The decision is ontirely withial tlie ])rovince of ihe Xational Roadsl Boai'd. It is still within the pnvihl edge of any IVody of public opin«l ion to raise olyjecfions to the preseiiw [ })!an for widening the hottleneck audl take such measures as niay seeml practioable to pross the case fmMl inwiew of the proposed operation.-l Editor.