Through traffic management methods, about 30,000 vehicles or more would be diverted from those congested streets, once the relief road was completed.
The so-called western relief road it means many things to many people.
Once that is done, we can judge whether the so-called relief road is necessary.
At present there is a majority on the regional council who approve of the relief road.
It is not a bypass; it is a relief road, with all that that means.
The relief road will attract a substantial amount of traffic from these streets and in consequence reduce traffic conflict and accidents.
There is complete agreement at the moment on the policy objective and the need for a relief road.
We are, therefore, entirely sympathetic to the idea of the urban relief road.
