Bus Route Changes

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31976, 1 May 1969, Page 19

Bus Route Changes

The Regional Planning Authority has suggested certain changes in bus routes and services which will have to come with improvements to the inner city area. The Director of Planning, Mr C. B. Millar, told the authority that bus routes could be modified during early improvements and no foreseeable changes would be needed at the time the motorways were constructed. He said a study of the improvements concluded that the suggested pattern of bus routes and stops would not prejudice the future operation of express buses using the motorways. The study shows that Worcester Street should be left open through Latimer Square for buses serving east and north-east sections of the city. The study says the detailed layout of the Square and the Internal bus stops is an integral part of the development of the central bus system.

The road layout cannot be considered independently from the problems of bus routing and bus service coupling. To make the Square operate satisfactorily as a public transport transfer area the traffic through flow must be interrupted on Colombo Street.

The general manager of the Christchurch Transport Board (Mr J. F. Fardel!) said the study would have to be considered by the board before being approved as a plan for the future. T own-Planning Decisions A recommendation by the Riccarton Borough Council’s town-planning committee that an application by K. J. Schumacher to carry on a carwrecking business at 30 Lowe Street be granted was rejected by the council on Monday evening and the matter was referred back to the committee. Cr R. S. Lester said that to grant the application would be wrong in principle and against the interests of the borough. Car wrecking was an untidy business and Lowe Street was not the best place Lor it.

The council approved applications for permission to establish a convalescent home and home for the aged at 9 Straven Street by Agnes Tui Taffs; a car sales yard at 245 Riccarton Road by St G. Atkinson and Company, Ltd; and four-unit flats at 40 Division Street by L. Orange and Company, Ltd. There were no objections to these applications.