SOCKBURN-STYX RAILWAY
Sir, —Though I always favour real progress of our city, I can only View the proposed beginning of the Sock-burn-Styx loop railway line via Russley road, with grave .misgivings. I know the proposed route was carefully considered, but I am still convinced that no consideration is strong enough to warrant the laying of a railway line’ between the city and the Dominion’s finest and most important international air terminal of the future. Unless we wish to repeat the disadvantage South Christchurch has suffered. for so long, of having traffic to the city continually intercepted, either the line must be sunk (almost unthinkable with the flood menace of the Waimakariri so near), or an overbridge must be built-r-costly and never a thing of beauty. Can we afford to repeat our mistakes, with our eyes open? And what a wonderful anticlimax to the projected Memorial Avenue, at the very gates of the airport itself!—Yours, etc.. R. S. D. HARMAN. June 20, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 2
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