John by the devestation of the inner city and the port of Lyttelton it will take years to bring Christchurch back to a normal city again. The roads are munted ,and travel around to anywhere takes planning as traffic becomes a gridlock ,thousands have lost their income and over 10000 houses and 60 percent of the city centre will have to be demolished .As far as the World Cup Rugby in October goes I think they that is the council are dreaming as most of the big hotels are wrecked. And all the main st in Lyttelton has to be rebuilt and the Port has major issues owing to the damage. The old British hotel will have to come down .On the positive side we are not like Japan .