LEAMINGTON ROADS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20910, 15 September 1939, Page 5

LEAMINGTON ROADS

RECONSTRUCTION BCHEME ELIMINATING DANGER CURVES The monthly meeting- or the Learnington Town Board was held in the Domain Pavilion last night, when those preseni were: Messrs J. W. Garland (chairman), J. Blackman, W. Morrow', F. L. St. John, H. J. Nelson, F. Vosper and R. £. Hanna (secretary). Mr W. McK. Jeffrey, the consulting engineer, submitted a report on the proposed reconstruction or the main highway from the Leamington town boundary on the Te Awarnutu main road on the west side, to Lamb Street on the south-east-ern boundary. The distance Is approximately 174 chains, omitting a portion or the existing sealed section between the Leamington bridge Tor a distance or approximately 13.3 chains to the west, which in the meantime it is not proposed to reconstruct. The proposed scheme has two alternatives, the llrst via the Leamington bridge along Cook Street, thence along Shakespeare Street, Browning Street, Carlyle Street to Lamb Street, an approximate distance or 174 chains. The second alternative is via Wordsworth Street (branching to the bridge), Joining with Shakespeare Street, thence into Browning, Carlyle and Lamb Streets, an approximate distance or 162 chains. Reconstruction Necesury Either or the alternatives Is subject to a Main Highways Board subsidy, and thererore to the board’s approval. In order to comply with the Main Highways specifications it will be essential to reconstruct the road entirely to at least a Class IV road, and it is this class on which the estimates are based. The section from the Junction ot Browning and Carlyle Streets and the continuation or Browning Street to the Leamington Town Board is not included under the Main Highways Board specification, but treated separately. The existing position or the approach roads to the Leamington bridge is unsatisfactory, and improvements can he made to ease the position. The danger or existing sharp corners should be overcome by the easing of the curves. The object is to make it as near as possible Tor a vehicle to travel on a straight line berore it actually reaches the bridge. This ! particularly applies to motor trucks conveying timber, etc., which with over- | hanging loads are liable to be dangerous when travelling around sharp curves in a congested area. To ease the existing curves entails throwing the road further out, and this will encroach on Town Reserve land and private properties. Mr Jeffrey estimated that the cost nr the first scheme on prices today would be £10.4 17. and the cost of the second £1 2.92 4. The board decided to recommend to the Highways Board, that tb«i flrat proposal be Adopted.

; Details of the scheme will be forwarded » to the Highways Board engineer in liam- • , iltpn. ' i State Housing A reply was received From the Director j or Housing Construction to tlie offer or r several municipal reserves for the pur- I pose or erecting houses. The reply • . stated that It was doubtful whether tlie>.; | could lie used in tile Department s | • housing scheme, but in order that Jull I consideration may he given lo the mat | I tej . the Department requested the board ! to forward a plan of the town showing j s the particular sections offered The board decided to forward a plan j