Test-traffic Arrangements

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30846, 3 September 1965, Page 1

Test-traffic Arrangements

The Christchurch City Council’s traffic department will have at least 40 men on the job tomorrow to control cars and crowds going to the third test at Lancaster Park. The match does not begin until 2.30 p.m., but the first traffic officers will be on duty at 8 a.m.

“They expect at least 60,000 at the game.” said Senior-Sergeant J. Brown yesterday, “and if this weather holds I’m sure they’ll get that number. A lot of motorists will be far better off if they leave their vehicles in town and catch a bus to the ground.” Senior-Sergeant Brown said traffic officers would patrol the no-parking areas, and any cars found there would have to be towed away. Stevens street, the one that runs past the main gates, will be reserved for press, police.

and doctors’ cars, and for the bus (ferrying the Springbok supporters .who have been following the South Africans around the country. NO PARKING STRIP

Most of the south side of Ferry road, from Fitzgerald avenue to Lancaster street, will be a no-parking strip. Cars will not be able to park in Lancaster street or in parts of Falsgrave street. Wilsons road from the railway line to Ferry road will be another no-parking zone, and so will Talfourd place and most of Leeds street. The south side of Moorhouse avenue between Falsgrave street and Lancaster street will be reserved for Christchurch Transport Board buses. Further back on Moorhouse avenue space will be reserved for the 20 country buses expected to arrive for the game, and for 11 truck-loads of soldiers from Burnham Military Camp. A party of four paraplegics from Dun edin, all in wheelchairs, will

be allowed to be driven right up to the gates. The traffic department hopes cyclists will park their machines at the blind end of Falsgrave street and in the trees along Fitzgerald avenue.

Both buses and taxis will unload and pick up in Moorhouse avenue. Only those taxis carrying crippled persons will be allowed to drive to the gates. BUS SERVICE The Christchurch Transport Board will start augmenting most regular suburban bus services from 11.30 a.m. tomorrow, and the shuttleservice between the Square and Lancaster Park will begin as early as 11 a.m. There will be about 30 buses plying between the two points. It took 23 minutes to clear the crowd from the SpringbokCanterbury match, and the board expects to do as well this time.

Senior Sergeant Brown said cars would not be allowed to move away from the streets around the park until 20 min-

utes after the end of the match. This would give pedestrians a chance to get away. Cyclists collecting their bicycles in Stevens street would be directed towards Wilsons road to prevent them charging through the crowd of pedestrians. Senior Sergeant Brown said] traffic officers would be concentrating on Moorhouse and 1 Fitzgerald avenues for keeping the traffic moving after the match. There would be officers on point duty at every intersection. “The new flyover in Moorhouse avenue should be a ged-send," he said. “We had to have four officers at that intersection for the last match.” About 80 policemen, including two inspectors and three senior sergeants, will be on duty at Lancaster Park. The police, in drawing up the duty roster, have worked on the basis of an estimated crowd of 60,000.

This will be the biggest number of police ever as l signed to a Rugby match at Lancaster Park.