The Buchanan Report

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30973, 1 February 1966, Page 16

The Buchanan Report

Sir, —I agree with your correspondent, M. W. Simes, who is of the opinion that Hagley avenue should be reformed. On January 20, I also made this suggestion and advocated the widening of Bealey avenue. If this was done, it would not be necessary to further divide up Hagley Park and there would be no need to lay waste much valuable property in the PeterboroughSalisbury street area. The pioneers thought big when they planned the north, south, east and west belts and so it would be absurd to put a roadway south and parallel to Bealey avenue. It behoves us to make the utmost use of this avenue. It would be an expensive folly to sabotage an area with a great potential for high density housing or commercial use and it wilLbe a sad day when the bulldozers desecrate Hagley park. This can be avoided by adopting Professor Buchanan’s alternative plan for Bealey avenue, which needs only to be widened, to accommodate the local traffic, and the roadway itself being completely; elevated.—Yours, etc. H AB AGER. January 31, 1966.