LIMITING ACCESS
Road Strip Control
“This is something new to us,” said Cr R. C. Neville when a Walmairi County Council town-planning subcommittee was asked yesterday to take a one-link strip of land outside the line of a proposed Johns Road deviation to preserve its limited access rights as an expressway.
The suggestion was made by the Regional Planning Authority’s traffic engineer (Mr M. Douglass), who said that the link strip was an easy and foolproof way of ensuring limited access. Obviously, he said, it would be unrealistic to acquire the strip on existing roads, but it was a desirable step in fixing the line of a new road. He did not suggest that the limited access road legislation was unsatisfactory, but the better way was to take the link strip. Mr Douglass told “The Press” later that the link strip, in effect, would give the council the right to stop access over it. The Ministry of Works had used this idea with new roads, and “broke” the link strip at appropriate places to allow access to pro> perty.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31551, 13 December 1967, Page 10
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