Fendalton Road and planning

Press, 29 May 1985, Page 18

Fendalton Road and planning

Sir,—The long-delayed publication of the revised Draft Regional Scheme, Section Two: Communications, was to have provided an opportunity for public participation in regional transportation planning for Canterbury residents. Given the rate of progress being achieved, however, on such projects as the widening of Fendalton Road, the Boon Hay Deyiation, the re-modell-ing of Victoria Square and the Opawa expressway, there no longer

may be need for any such reports that may (or may not) examine the options, impacts, benefits and disbenefits. Everything, not by grandiose design but by attrition and stealth, will be built. Clearly, the appropriate local authorities are quite capable of making the necessary decisions and getting the job done without recourse to inefficient, time-consuming and job-threatening democratic procedures and the interference of the United Council.— Yours, etc., NEIL ANDERSON. May 25, 1985.