$12.7M wanted for Canterbury roads

Press, 1 June 1978, Page 2

$12.7M wanted for Canterbury roads

An estimated SI27M wiii, be spent on roads n Canter-' bury in the present financial year, the District Roads Council was told at its estimates meeting yesterday. This would be applied to maintenance, bridging, and construction of roads for counties, municipalities, and State highways tn Canter-: bury and the Chatham Is-1 lands. As well as proposed reading works for the present year, programmes for the district were nut before the council for estimated ex-1 penditure of 518.2 M over the next two year,. The contribution to be made by the National Roads Board for these works amounted to SB-2M this year and SII.IM over the next two years. Of this. 54.6 M »sj for subsidised reading works* this year and 56.2 M for sun j stdised works in the next two years. The rest has Peer.! approved for expenditure on A total of 53.9 M has been; estimated for read works ini

counties, and SS.IM in municipalities this year. In the next two years, estimated . expenditure for counties isj -56.7 M, and for municipalities S&SM. The Christchurch City) i Council has estimated reading works totalling 54.58. M I for the oresent year, allowlag for a Roads Board sub- . sidy of $234M. The expenditure includes $550,000 set aside for the South New Brighton bridge, which will be replaced because it is un- ■ safe. The roads council has recommended that the subsidy for the bridge be raised: to a 3:1 ratio instead of the; /present 3:2 ratio. Kaiapoi Borough Council’s i estimated reading ex- ■ penditure for the present t vear is $141,400. including a i $78,200 Roads Board subfile Lyttelton Borough : Council's estimated expenditure is $131,800, in- , eluding a $60,200 subsidy, 'rhe Rangiora Borough Council’s estimated expenditure is $100,400, including a $47,800

i subsidy, and the Riccarton I Borough Council’s estimated expenditure is $177,100, including a $81,900 subsidy.

Estimated expenditure on reading this year for the county councils in the district, with the accompanying Roads Board subsidies, is: Akaroa. $271,400 (subsidy $156,200); Chatham Islands, $117,400 ($98,300); Elles- | nere. sss,ouu ($31,300); t-yre <310,000 '*184,100); Heath

I I Hurunui, $324,400 ($188,900); i Malvern, $379,400 ($183,800): Mount Herbert, $97,600 ! ($57,600); Oxford, $157,400 : ($85,500); Paparua, $536,800 |( $235,100); Rangiora, $227,000 ($110,600); Waimairi, $978,600 ($449,300); and Wairewa $84,800 ($46,800).

An application from Wairewa to have a 1:1 subsidy ratio, in line with a similar ratio granted previously to Akaroa, will be put to the board’s executive for consideration.