Decisions about roads and railways that made sense in the late 1980s and early 1990s continue to cast a shadow over public transport in the city.
A result is that Christchurch does not have public transport based on a railway, while Wellington and Auckland do.
If that’s too strong, then the decisions made rail-based public transport much more difficult in Christchurch, observers say.
One decision was moving the Christcjhurch railway station from Moorhouse Ave to Addington. \
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A second was creating “the gap” in the tracks that makes it hard to get passengers from North Canterbury and the northern suburbs to Moorhouse Ave and potentially the Square.
