Concern about overbridge

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34089, 28 February 1976, Page 16

Concern about overbridge

[ The Sydenham Community Committee is [concerned that completion of the Durham [Street railway over)bridge before the Strickland Street - Colombo [Street section of the Brougham Street motorway is finished will onlyadd to traffic congestion. According to present plans, the overbridge in to Sydenham will be completed in about a year, but the congested section of Brougham Street will not be completed [until 1979. “The committee believes it would be criminally negligent of your council to not complete the Brougham Street motorwav before opening

the Durham Street, overbridge,” the committee chairman (Mr H. A. Clark) said in a letter to the Christchurch City Council.

“Why don’t you consider doubling the capacity Of the Waltham Street overhead bridge or consider encouraging traffic to use Moorhouse Avenue and Lincoln Road?” he added.

! Mr Clark said the committee did not want to see increasing traffic diverted in to Sydenham, “or to see Syden- ’ ham used as an interchange (system for the city’s private motor-vehicles.” He said the section of Brougham Street, between ‘Colombo Street and Strickland Street, was “already the most congested strip of reading in Christchurch, especially in the early mornings, early evenings, and on SaturIdays.” The council’s works and ’traffic committee chairman (Cr P D. Dunbar) said last : evening that it was not a clear-cut issue, and he did not want to comment until he had had a chance to study the Sydenham complaint along with opinions of council officers.