“SO LIKE PARADISE ?”
Sir.—A visitor said to me one day: “Christchurch is lovely. Almost like living in Paradise.” I wondered if that lady had ever experienced a shopping expedition on a Friday here. I imagined her with two crying children clinging to her, her neck’ aching from perpetual turning from left to right to avoid oncoming traffic, laden with parcels, footsore and weary. Does it not sound more like hell on earth? Oneway traffic would be p solution to many pedestrian troubles; and surely Christchurch, with its long parallel streets, was preordained for this? Knowing Christchurch, it would of course be fought over, wrangled over and howled down, but it wil] have to come. Why not now?—Yours, etc., R.M.W. November 8, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26265, 9 November 1950, Page 11
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