Route details

Press, 9 June 1978, Page 1

Route details

Details of proposed changes are: Southern Motorway: The motorway into Addington would be open soon, with the Lincoln Road overbridge, and Brougham Street was almost completed as a four-lane road. It would then be extended to Opawa Road. It is recommended that the State Highway (Southern Motorway) connection between Durham Street and Waltham Road, including most, but not all, of the Waltham interchange, be deleted. That would keep it from going through the heart of the Sydenham business district. West of Durham Street, the motorway corridor should be retained as a heavy vehicle outlet. Brougham Street would have to carry more traffic than it has been designed for, and it might have to have six lanes in some places (such as near oneway streets). An overbridge across the Colombo Street intersection at Sydenham Pa.k might be needed. There was a long-term proposal to upgrade Gasson Street and provide it with a railway overbridge to Moorhouse Avenue, and a plan for the future “boulevard” treatment of Barbadoes Street.

It would be necessary to make extensive use of Shakespeare Road, and Ensors Road should be bridged over that route and the railway. Further east, the Opawa Road Expressway “is a very desirable route by any standards,” Mr Gadd said. It would be mostly along the railway line. Northern Motorway: “This corridor should be retained with minor deletions.” A landscaped, noise-protected arterial street with cycleways should be built within the present corridor, with ways for cycles and pedestrians to cross the new road. This route initially would stop short of the present pair of one-way streets, Madras and Barbadoes, which has been known for some time. Fendalton to the East: There was no justification in the next 20 years for keeping the proposed road between Fendalton Road and the central city oneway street system' The central part of that corridor to Madras Street could also be abolished. But the Avonside Drive corridor further east should be kept. Little change was proposed in plans for other arterial routes.