Work On Master Traffic Plan For Region

Press, Volume C, Issue 29557, 5 July 1961, Page 5

Work On Master Traffic Plan For Region

| Mr G. C. Suggate. who has! 'been seconded from the Min-! listry of Works to the Christchurch Regional Planning! ’Authority as investigating I i engineer (traffic and trans-1 (port) for the last two years land a half, will return to the department now that the | authority has calculated the amount of travel generated by all localities in 1980 as a preparation for a master transport plan. Tributes to Mr Suggate’s work were expressed at the authority's meeting yesterday. “He has done a remarkable job,” said the chairman (Mr E. J. Bradshaw). “He had no blueprint, no precedents, and no book of instruction.** Mr J. F Fardell said the work by Mr Suggate on the master transport plan would be invaluable to the Transport Board in planning its services. His proposal that Mr Suggate be thanked and ’ that the Ministry of Works be thanked for making him available was adopted by the authority.

! The traffic and transport ■ technical sub-committee rei ported that considerable I planning and assessment of ! data were required by techI nical staff to complete the second phase of the master transport plan. It considered that the work should be carried out by the officers of all the authorities concerned working in conjunction with the sub-committee. It was expected that the Ministry of Works would make Mr Suggate available for as much time as was necessary to guide and direct the work in accordance with the original Conception of the pattern of investigations, said Mr Bradshaw. How long would it be before there was something definite? asked Mr W. P. Glue. “We are sadly In need of it at present,” he said The City Council, in preparing its district planning scheme, had had to confine it to zoning provisions, as the master transport plan was not available. She was hesitant about put-

ting an actual data on Hie completion because the full extent of the resources available to do the work was not known, aaid the Regional Planner (Mias N. Northcroft) The committee's report said it believed that by the end of next March there could be an outline plan. She could not go beyond that, Mr Bradshaw said ft would depend to some extent on the assistance given by the constituent authorities.