‘Interim solution’ at $l000 a week

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33241, 2 June 1973, Page 17

‘Interim solution’ at $l000 a week

During the likely useful life of the proposed changes at the Carlton | Mill corner, ratepayers and motorists would be paying about $lOOO a week for the “interim solution,” Mr A. I. R. Jamieson, president of the Automobile Association (Canterbury), told the association’s council on Thursday evening. The council adopted a report of its national motoring! and traffic committee which referred to the Christchurch City Council’s third plan for the intersection. The committee had resolved that the association regard the plan as an interim solution only, with a life of four to five years, and ex-! press the hope that a final' solution would be evolved in line with the Master Transportation Plan. The association should keep a close watch on the

(situation at the Carlton Mill 1 intersection, Mr Jamieson ! said.' I Interim solutions were ! often costly and non-produc-tive, he said, and the association had to express concern about the interim solution, and its cost, on behalf of its members. Another report—from a later meeting of the motoring ■ and traffic committee with : the chairman of the City' i Council’s traffic committee i|(Cr W. Massey)—also re-! • ferred to the Carlton . Mill I corner. It said that the commit-! i tee’s chairman (Mr T. D.j i Craig) had commented that! ’ the association appreciated • that politics were involved in the matter, and that he; I (assured Cr Massev would be ■ well aware of the association’s views on the matter. I Cr Massey acknowledged ‘ this, the report said. i