Parking Buildings
Sir, —In reply to Patrick Neary, when a parking building makes money it is time to build another. He believes “an impossible fascination of the city motor-car” exists—who is being fascinated by these indications of a work-a-day world? Traffic in a city centre is its life blood. It gave birth to the city and kept it alive. Take it away and you make a city centre die. If these buildings become derelict, “an ugly memorial,” so might central Christchurch. He foresees a different community pattern, but decentralised Christchurch must still be a city, still requiring “fascinating” work-a-day traffic. He sees perimeter parking free from heavy city traffic flow. Where will this have flowed from the “no entry” signposts? Suburbia will be dense with vehicles, massed fumes asphyxiating the die-hard gardeners. He recommends hard surfaces. These sites, open to the wind and the rain, seem a long way out in his imagination.—Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. July 10, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32037, 11 July 1969, Page 10
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