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CHRISTCHURCH International Airport (CIAL) has joined Christchurch City Council in slamming western roading corridor plans which they believe will sever the link between the airport and the city. A section of linked roads which includes Johns, Russley, Masham and Carmen roads is proposed to be upgraded and changed to four lanes by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) with the aim of easing traffic congestion and better linking Belfast with Hornby. As a result, adjoining roads including Sawyers Arms Rd and Avonhead Rd will
traffic onto Memorial Ave and have their access to that section there were safety concerns of road cut off, while Wairakei about heavy vehicles mixing Rd’s access will be limited. with private vehicles including CIAL chief executive Jim tourists driving on the left for Boult said the airport shared the the first time. council’s concerns. “Around about the equivalent “The proposal as it stands of the city of Timaru comes by the NZTA takes away the Jim Boult onto the airport campus each connectivity of Russley and Johns Rd between the city and airport and, day and it’s a lot of people to try and bring in addition, to a wide number of smaller on via Memorial Ave.� The proposal would also affect access to businesses and local residents.� Mr Boult said the proposal would also Dakota Park, a new area of the airport set funnel “an enormous amount� of extra to open for cargo unloading, emergency
services and future Antarctic operations. The airport had been told access would now be either cut off or by way of an “enormously expensive� overbridge paid for largely by the airport. The airport continued to advocate for McLeans Island Rd and Pound Rd to be upgraded as an alternative route for through traffic, an option NZTA has previously investigated and deemed not an effective solution, according to its website. NZTA was contacted for comment by Mainland Press but did not respond before the newspaper went to print. Christmas generosity: Volunteers at St Christopher’s church in Avonhead, from left, Janice Giblet, Norma Hayman, Janette Sprott, Robyn Dawson, Margaret Amor, Sandra Robb and Jim Robb, pack up Christmas hampers to give to 200 families and elderly residents in the eastern suburbs. The church’s earthquake response coordinator Janette Sprott said the hampers would go to people they had worked with during the year. The goods were mostly donations from the congregation following an appeal they put out two weeks ago and they also had $600 sent from a church in Nelson to go towards hams and chickens. “We are hoping to include items they can have a Christmas meal out of,� she said. See story page 3. Photo: Samantha Early
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