Letter

Pushing for a ring road didn’t end well

Jul 06 2024 Updated July 5, 2024

Opinion

1 min read

Re Grey St. The council should take notice of the past. A ring road around the city centre was almost forced on Gisborne people by the then council in the early 1980s.

The public got up in arms over this and the project was dropped, but it ended up that the mayor and a councillor lost their seats.

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