Expressway assn seeks help

Press, 5 March 1982, Page 4

Expressway assn seeks help

The Avonside-Woodham Expressway Association yesterday again asked the Christchurch City Council for financial help to pay for the cost of fighting ■ the expressway designation. The association’s chairman, Mr Jr H. Quarterly; said at a meeting of the council's town-planning committee that .a private traffic consultant’s advice had been more helpful than the advice given by council officers in a

hearing on tne designation. Although the association had already spent more than $3OOO on fees for the preparation and presentation of evidence, it still needed $1941 to pay''Mr P. T. McCombs, the consulting traffic engineer. whose evidence had been valuable to the council and the community as a whole. The council’s.financial help in meeting the expenses would be justified also “on

consideration of what a group of residents can fairly be expected to pay in order to have demonstrated that this expressway proposal is unnecessary.” Legal aspects of the association’s request will be considered by the committee. The council's decision to revoke the expressway designation has been appealed against by the Canterbury United Council.