Move away from the private car?
Carless days and high petrol prices may be changing reliance on the private car as a way of getting to work.
But Christchurch City Council planners may have to wait until the 1981 Census before they are certain of the trend.
A comparison of 1971 and 1976 census statistics has shown that travel by motor vehicle to work in the city centre increased from 43.6 per cent of total journeys to 45.1 per cent in five years. It seemed that the increase was directly related to the rising proportion of central city workers living in outer suburbs.
Bus travel was still the second most popular way of getting from home to work, but its share of total journeys dropped slightly in those five years, from 26.8 per cent to 25.3. per cent. Bicycle and motor-cycle trips increased from 13.6 per cent tb’ls per cent
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