Tunnel Road
Sir, —So your tunnel road figures demonstrate that the long work of tunnel road advocates has’come to a dead end. Would it not be possible for a group of transport experts to be set up as an investigation ’ bddy—to examine a range of new transport factors? I have the plans of a new type of coastal ship, which can load and unload, with few watersiders, at 240 tons an hour. Aluminium containers do the trick. Then railway goods transport can also be revolutionised. A road could be constructed linking Rockinghorse road, right through to Spencer Park. Then with the new bridge across the estuary a better road could be built to Lyttelton, with a short tunnel coming out at Gollans Bay. Thus North Canterbury traffic could dodge Christchurch. A range of small adjustments could be made that would enable 10 times the traffic through’ the electric railway tunnel. —Yours, etc.,
L. C. WALKER. December 2, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 3
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