TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT
Plans For City Of 500,000
In the coming year, the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority will begin work on a plan to cope with the traffic and transport problems of Christchurch when it has a population of about 500,000.
The authority’s traffic and transport advisory committee says in its annual report that so far a forecast of the future development of Christchurch as a whole went up to only 1976, by which time it was estimated there would be a population of 280,000, with 270,000 in the built-up area. .“For the purposes of traffic forecasting, however, and the consequential consideration of alternative ways of meeting the forecast situation it would be wiser to look to the day when Christchurch has a population of more than half a million,” the committee says, “This is because the major construction works which may be involved would be of such an expensive and permanent nature that they must be capable of meeting a situation well beyond that of 1976.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 14
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