Bid to seal off area fails

Press, 8 December 1988, Page 6

Bid to seal off area fails

By

BARRY CLARKE

A Christchurch City councillor’s bid to have the area under the Moorhouse Avenue overbridge sealed off because of loutish behaviour has failed. Cr Linda Constable last evening asked the City Council’s works and traffic committee to recommend post and chaining the area on Friday and Saturday nights, after a recent tour of the city’s trouble-spots. “It’s a very dangerous area and the behaviour that goes on there can't be allowed to continue,” she told the meeting. “Beer bottles are being thrown and (nearby) Carlyle Street is being used as a drag strip. By not chaining the area and y keeping them out we are; assisting them as a coun-

cil.” The Ministry of Transport’s traffic superintendent, Mr Ray Hall, said the problem was not a big one. “We have been down there and done breath tests. We have got very few,” he said. “We know they are using Carlyle Street as a drag strip, but we may soon have a package to stop them. “We are more concerned over evidence we have that some of these people are moving to urban streets in Brighton. We would rather have them speeding in a nonresidential street like Carlyle Street than a residential area,” he said. The committee will ' speak to the police and M.O.T. about a solution.