Split over roadworks

Press, 3 October 1979, Page 6

Split over roadworks

Waimairi County councillors are divided on roadworks priorities. Some say the council is committing itself to Fendalton roadworks for too many years, to the detriment of works to the east of the county. The County Chairman (Mr! D. B. Rich) told the council’s! works committee on Monday evening that roadworks at the junction of Idris, Stra-I ven, and Fendalton Roads,] immediately after big con-1 struction on the junction of j Clyde and Fendalton Roads! and Memorial Avenue, I would stop work on a north-1

• em expressway to. link with • the northern motorway. He said that once the i council began the work it • would be forced to widen > Fendalton Road between : Clyde Road and Straven ; Road, in tandem with Christchurch Drainage Board ! works along that section, in ! about five years. ' This would fully commit council funds for five years, J and prevent any work on [ the expressway, Mr Rich I said. 1 His motion to have the |finance committee’s decision on the roadworks rescinded I was unsuccessful.

“Just because I vote in favour of work on the Idris Road intersection, I will not vote in favour of widening ' Fendalton Road,” said Cr F. Chisholm.

“We should seek the Drainage Board’s assurance that it will not do sewer works between Clyde Road and Straven Road for 12 years,” said Mr Rich. “That is asking too much,” said Cr M. P. Hobby.

The committee will ask the Drainage Board for its works schedule for that area.