Urban transport area likely to stay same
Canterbury’s urban transport area seems likely to stay the same as that proposed by the Canterbury United Council in July last year. Four territorial authorities objected to the proEosed urban transport area, ut the United Council’s urban transport committee yesterday recommended that none of these objections be upheld. This recommendation will go before the full council on May 30 and if adopted formal notice of it will be given next month. Territorial authorities that still wish to then have two months to lodge objections with the Local Government Commission.
Under the Urban TransEort Act the Canterbury United Council is required to prepare and implement plans for moving people within its area. The resources and facilities for moving people should be seen and planned as a total
system, and districts pay for what they get. The area the council agreed on last year does not conform to local body boundaries but includes all the districts which are predominantly urban influenced and have substantial inter-linking urban activities, such as work, shopping, schools, recreation, culture, and other community necessities.
It is generally bounded by the “green belt” around metropolitan Christchurch and includes Burnham Military Camp, Rolleston, Rangiora, Woodend, Kaiapoi, Belfast, Islington, Templeton, West Melton, Prebbleton, Lincoln, Tai Tapu, a small area at Teddington, Diamond Harbour, Purau, Church Bay, and Charteris Bay. Objections were received from the Malvern County Council, Eyre County Council, and Rangiora District Council. A staff report on these
objections concluded that various alternatives to the proposed area could satisfy one or more of these territorial authorities, but further objections from other authorities could arise as a result. There was no “soft option.” The United Council’s chief executive, Mr Malcolm Douglass, told yesterday’s meeting that some authorities had become confused and lacked confidence in the urban transport area. In consultation with the Transport board, the United Council’s staff will collect information on transport services in the area north of the Waimakariri River. This would give these authorities some idea of present costs of running these services compared with costs they would be likely to incur as part of the urban transport area.
Mr Douglass hoped that an explanation of this information could stop further objections.
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