Concern At Traffic Volume In Kaiapoi

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31276, 24 January 1967, Page 14

Concern At Traffic Volume In Kaiapoi

Highway traffic was so bad at Kaiapoi at week-ends that local people could not move around their own town freely, Cr. W. Bell told the Kaiapoi Borough Council last night.

Many cars were damaged in bumper-to-bumper “bumps” as they crawled through the bottleneck at Kaiapoi. Cr. Bell urged the council to take a strong line with the National Roards Board over the new motorway planned for the north. /He asked if the Commissioner of Works (Mr D. B. Dallas) had personally tried to drive through Kaiapoi on a Sunday. He said Mr Dallas’s report to the council on plans for building the motorway was unsatisfactory. It gave the council no idea when the motorway would relieve congestion in the town. Although the new bridge across the Waimakariri would be completed this year, it would do nothing to relieve the situation at Kaiapoi, he said. Other councillors said they

believed the motorway project was getting further and further behind and there seemed little prospect of traffic relief for a long time. The council decided to write to the National Roods Board asking when the motorway around Kaiapoi would be built.