Road planning
Sir,—l have carefully studied the seven reports of the Transport Study Working Group recently released by the Canterbury United Council. The public should be aware that the reports are less objective or neutral than highly partisan and emotive documents. The often ingenuous and superficial
summary report misrepresents the mostly well-prepared though severely-constrained assessments. Assumptions contained within the reports ensure that land use-trans-portation issues and the expressed wishes of residents are ignored, and that traffic considerations overwhelm social, environmental or economic objectives. In view of the need for a new, more comprehensive approach, I urge all residents to support a public inquiry into transportation policy in Christchurch. Perhaps only then can some balance be restored to planning, as intended by the Urban Transport Act and the Town and Country Planning Act. — Yours, etc. NEIL ANDERSON. August 5, 1985.
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