‘No’ to street change: poll

A LARGE majority of more than 1400 people who took part in an Otago Daily Times poll oppose a plan to make Dunedin’s George St oneway.

A total of 78% were against making the street oneway as part of a plan to make it more pedestrian friendly.

The poll is not scientific. It comes after the Dunedin City Council’s planning and environment committee this week decided to push ahead with a business case for a oneway design for the city’s main shopping street, with the flexibility to convert back to a twoway street if it did not work out.

It rejected a staff recommendation for the opposite — a twoway design with the ability to shift to oneway.