FLYOVERS PROPOSED

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 21

FLYOVERS PROPOSED

Use In City Belts The building of fly-overs on the four city belts would avoid a lot of the destruction of houses and other property required to carry out the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority’s master transportation plan, Mr H. G. Royds, a consulting engineer, told a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr Royds and the meeting's other speaker, Mr P. J. Bea ven, an architect, are members of a group of professional men who have closely studied the master transportation project in the last six months.

Referring to the proposed motorway from Fendalton to Avonside, through Hagley Park, Mr Royds said that the plan was largely the work of two young men not long out from England. “These two young men can hardly be expected to know the unusual status of Hagley Park among the people of Christchurch,” said Mr Royds. He considered that part of the plan would certainly be dropped.

Mr Beaven said that the new motorway would disperse the central business and retail shopping area, as there would be so many cars that shoppers and pedestrians would be wary of entering. The construction of such motorways, together with the present fancy for zoning, would set a standard of city planning far different from anything previously known in Christchurch, and could produce one of the dullest cities imaginable, Mr Beaven said.