Expenditure Of £3m On Full Outlet Plan

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 10

Expenditure Of £3m On Full Outlet Plan

(From Our Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, May 18. A total expenditure of close to £3m is visualised before the scheme approved yesterday by the National Roads Board to provide an adequate northern motorway out of Christchurch is fully implemented. This would not be before 1980. The expenditure of £1,715,000 approved yesterday will carry the scheme forward to 1969, but at that stage certain sections of the road will have been left as two-lane highways. The complete scheme comprises a four-lane highway from Innes road to State highway 72 (at an estimated cost of £2,514,000), a twolane highway from the intersection with State highway 72 to the Ashley river bridge (£179,000), the Belfast by-pass (£81,000), improvements to the existing highway (£160,000), and the Sneyd street link road connexion (£40,000).

The following works are approved for completion “as soon as possible”:— A four-lane highway from Tram road to Chaneys (£791,000). A four-lane highway from Ohoka road to Tram road (£167,000). A two-lane highway from Cam road to Ohoka road (£244,000). A two-lane highway from Main North road to Cam road; and the widening of the section of the Main North road from Chaneys to Cranford street to four lanes (£140,000). These improvements are intended for completion before 1965, in which year the widening of another section of the Main North road is intended. This section is the

one between Sandhills road and Pa road, and the estimated cost will be £20,000. The widening of the motorway section between Cam road and Ohoka road is scheduled for completion by 1966 at a cost of £131,000. By 1970 it is proposed to have a two-lane highway from State Highway 72 to the Main North road turn-off at Pa road (£177,000). This would be as far as the present approvals would take the scheme. The widening of the following sections of the motorway

to four lanes is scheduled to be completed as indicated:— Pa road to Cam road (£52,000), 1973; State Highway 72 to Pa road (£61,000), 1975; Chaneys to Innes road (£807,000), 1980. The completion of three two-lane highways, all scheduled for 1980, will then be all that remains. They are:—Ashley river to State Highway 72 (£179,000); Belfast by-pass (£81.000); Sneyd street link (£40,000). The total cost of the undertaking by this time will have been £2,974,000.