The City Engineer’s Department has prepared this rough pi an for the proposed new lay-out of Cathedral Square. It shows two shelters, each 9 feet wide, and about 10 feet high. The shelters will have a total seating accommodation for seventy people. At each end of each shelter there will be an open space, with further seating accommodation. There will be a safety zone, surrounded by a balustrade wall. Pedestrians crossing from the pavement to the shelters will enter by any of three entrances, preventing “jay walking,” and crossings will be marked on the ground, as at street corners in the centre of the city. The shelters will be in classic style, but will be too low to permit of the Gothic style of the Cathedral.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18785, 14 June 1929, Page 11

The City Engineer’s Department has prepared this rough pi an for the proposed new lay-out of Cathedral Square. It shows two shelters, each 9 feet wide, and about 10 feet high. The shelters will have a total seating accommodation for seventy people. At each end of each shelter there will be an open space, with further seating accommodation. There will be a safety zone, surrounded by a balustrade wall. Pedestrians crossing from the pavement to the shelters will enter by any of three entrances, preventing “jay walking,” and crossings will be marked on the ground, as at street corners in the centre of the city. The shelters will be in classic style, but will be too low to permit of the Gothic style of the Cathedral.