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From:
Chris Twemlow
Date:
2007 Jun 14 10:05 UTC
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Hello, I am Chris Twemlow and I am a resident of Lyttelton.
It is great to see a vision for urban transportation. Our city, planned over a
hundred years ago, has reached the limits of its current road infrastructure
along notable arterial routes. Now is definitely a good opportunity to muster
the political will to open the purse strings of the city to an investment in
Light Rail.
Part of the key as you outlined is having trains stop at appropriate locations,
if these are well chosen, they become a focus in their own right and
communities and businesses concentrate around them and would serve Christchurch
well into the future. After having lived on and off in Tokyo over the last 15
years, I know how effective and essential rail can be as population densities
increase.
I would also like to congratulate the Council and the efforts of yourself and
many others in the purchase of 480ha at Misty Peaks in the Banks Peninsula as a
regional park. In realation to this, do you have a vision for how Christchurch
could continue to expand and at the same time preserve and restore its the
wetlands, rivers, hills and harbours?