ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a detailed analysis of archival material and interviews with key players. Following local government reform, the tourist transport committee (TTC) was re-established in December 1989 as the tourist transport sub-committee (TTSC) of the operations committee of the newly enlarged christchurch city council. Christchurch is a major centre for domestic tourism. Tourism was again a major part of the rationale to extend the tramway, not so much in terms of its impact on the growth in visitor numbers but more in the way tourism might benefit inner city revitalization. The first proposal to reintroduce trams in Christchurch appears to have been that made in 1983 by the Tramways historical society (THS) to the Bishop's Committee formed to examine possibilities for the redevelopment of Cathedral Square in the city centre. A report outlining options to extend the tramway beyond Worcester Boulevard was requested at the July 1991 meeting of the TTSC.
