Letter: US force offer is only a myth

Last updated 12:00 23/12/2009
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OPINION: Both The Dominion Post and TV One attribute the concept of a road through Transmission Gully to the American army in about 1942. Wrong.

The Public Works Department considered and rejected this route in the 1930s, in favour of the successful coastal alignment.

It's ironic that the present political decision to fund a motorway through the Gully has no more technical, economic, or road-user benefit than is contained in the American army myth.

MIKE WILLIAMS

Tawa

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