THE NORTHERN APPROACH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9136, 8 July 1908, Page 4

THE NORTHERN APPROACH.

It is satisfactory to observe that the Borough Council is again about to move in the matter of improving the northern approach, having decided last evening to set up a committee to bring the question to some definite issue. The history of the movement, for improvement of this shockingly bad stretch of highway extends back several years.and is a story of deputations, conferpnees, disagreements and repudiations, the County and Borough Councils and the Chamber of Commerce having always found the northern approach a convenient theme to discuss when other debatable matter was Jacking. It is to be hoped for the credit of the district that the new-born activity will not be as abortive as previous movements, and that the local bodies will work hand in hand to make the approach a permanently safe and usable thoroughfare. When any hockey or football matches are in progress at Lansrlowne on afternoons when the approach wears its characteristic winter mantle of mud, the block of traffic on the bridge sidewalks is very considerable, and pedestrians suffer grave inconvenience through cyclists being compelled to ride their vehicles over the narrow footway. This is well-known to Borough Councillors, and if County Councillors are not aware of the fact they are advised to spend a Thursday afternoon watching the traffic at the approach.