“Traffic In Towns”
Sir, —You cite the Buchanan Report as “reason for urgency in improving roads, not an excuse for doing nothing.” The City Planning Study Group agrees. Far from doing nothing, the group wants the planners to immediately modify existing city roads for the better handling of traffic. We propose that the “primary network” required for “the canalisation of our longer traffic flows” be a modification of the present six-lane to eight-lane avenues already surrounding Christchurch. At a fraction of the £43 million required by our Regional Planning Authority, these avenues could be adapted with fly-overs and' roundabouts as the necessary “primary network.” And this first step could be made operative inside two years. Rather than wait 20 years, we proffer a plan functioning in a tenth of the time at a twentieth of the cost. Outside the belts the other plan may well merit support.—Yours, etc, C. C. STEEL. June 26, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30478, 27 June 1964, Page 12
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