Flyover Deletion Objected To

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32360, 28 July 1970, Page 1

Flyover Deletion Objected To

Three objections have been lodged to the Qty Council’s resolution to vary its own proposed district scheme by removing that portion which says that there shall be a flyover across Park Terrace from the Fendalton-Avonside motorway to Salisbury Street where the master transport plan envisages there will be an elevated portion of the motorway.

s the Regional Planning liri County Council and . flyover) will not be needed across Park Terrace. “Not Needed” “The council also now be- ; Ueveg that the elevated road will not be required along Salisbury Street for many years—probably not for ever —but there is no ‘for ever,’ in : government,” Cr Smith said, i He said that he had seen elevated roads in United i States, British and Scandina- ’ vian cities, and he was convinced that the roads were not i things ordinary citizens would i want unless they became an " absolute necessity, with no I alternative.

tors, the Avonside-Fendalton I Motorway will not be able to 'take the through traffic envisaged for it in the master transport plan approved by the Ministry of Works which gave a substantial sum towards the cost of producing that plan. The authority, broadly, objects that in the City Council's review scheme, as varied by the council, all mention of grade separation at Park Terrace and the elevated part of the Fendalton . Avonside Motorway, will be excised.

The objectors are Authority, the Waimai Mr R. R. Livingstone. The Deputy Mayor (Cr H. P. Smith) yesterday set down September 24 as a tentative date for the hearing of the objections by a City Council subcommittee comprising the Mayor (Mr A.B. Guthrey), Cr Smith, and Cr R. H. Stewart. The Clty Council!» how in the position of objecting to its own proposed district scheme, with a subcommittee consisting of councillors hearing objections and making a recommendation to the City Council. “Nobody is dying to have a flyover across Park Terrace and an elevated roadway along Salisbury Street," said Cr Smith when yesterday he was asked to comment on the situation. “The council expects that the four pairs of one-way streets will so distribute traffic that a grade separation (or

The Regional Planning Authority has made its grounds for objections to the deletion of the Park Terrace flyover and elevated road quite clear. The authority considers that, without those two fac-