CARS JAM ROAD
Congestion At New Shop
Vehicles jammed the Main North Road yesterday near the new Northlands shopping centre while other drivers attempted to enter, and leave, the parking lots at the centre. Lines of cars, sometimes 50 vehicles long, had to be stopped by the two traffic officers who were trying to let first-day shoppers leave the parking lot. Cars came and went from the lot at a rate of 10 a minute for much of the day. At 4.15 p.m. 191 cars and about 40 bicycles were parked in the lot.
North-bound traffic, held back by the vehicles of the shopping crowds, sometimes halted other traffic using the Papanui roundabout. Shoppers’ cars were also parked from Halliwell Avenue and Sissons Road to the Papanui shopping centre. At 5.5 p.m., when a line of vehicles had to stop, a car crashed into the back of a van. The car’s radiator was smashed.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31504, 19 October 1967, Page 1
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