Notorious corners now even more dangerous?

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 35, 21 February 1984, Page 3

Notorious corners now even more dangerous?

The Waiouru Community Advisory Council are worried that improvements at either end of the Mulvays Corners will make them even more dangerous because cars will approach at a higher speed. These two corners round the Hihitahi Bluffs on SH1, 12kms south of Waiouru, have been the scene of several accidents, some of them fatal, over the years. The estimated cost of realigning the Bluffs is in excess of $ 1 .9 million and in October last year the No. 8 (Wanganui) District Roads Board decided that it should be given top priority.

The work is being done in stages with an initial allocation of $485,000 for the widening, 'daylighting' and re-alignment of the approaches. But it is these approaches that the WCAC members are concerned about. The Rangitikei County representative on the Wai-

ouru Community Advisory Committee, Mr Ashley Strachan, said that by making entry into the corners faster it would also make them more dangerous. "More pressure was needed to have the complete re-alignment of the Bluff accomplished as soon as possible," he said.

The Waiouru Community Advisory Committee agreed to write a letter to local King Country MP, Jim Bolger, to express their concern about the dangers of these interim measures and to ask that the entire re-alignment programme be completed as soon as possible ... "before someone else gets killed."