Resolution 02136RESOLUTION NO. 2136
APPROVING REPORT OF TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
WHEREAD,the City of Alameda has heretofore depended upon direct rail end ferry
service of the Southern Pacific Company for communication with San Francisco, but ferry
service is about to be abandoned and rail service is about to be rercuted circuitously
to the terminal of the San-Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, incurring an increase
in trip time, to the inconvenienoe of the great mass of users of this service, and to
the ultimate detriment of the City of Alameda; and
WHEREAS, Public Utilities Commissioners, E.W.N.Bowes and John M. O'Dea, and
Councilmen Elect, A. C. Carrington and Milton C. Godfrey, and City Manager Charles R.
Schwanenberg, and City Engineer George Sperbeck were heretofore appointed a committee
to study and report upon means of establishing adequate communication between the City
of Alameda and the Eastern Terminal of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; and
WHEREAS, said Committee has filed its Final Report, dated February 14, 1937,
concluding and recommending (a) that a high level bridge be constructed across the San
Antonio Estuary as an extension of the Cypress Street Approach to the San Francisco
Bay Bridge in Oakland, and with its approach in Alameda terminating at Webster Street
north of the Posey Tube, for receiving and discharging trains, vehicles and pedestrians,
and (b) that the project to construct such a bridge be submitted to the Board of Super-
visors of Alameda County, to the Director of Public Works of the State of California,
to the City of Oakland, to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and to
the Division of Highways and the State Toll Bridge Authority of the -State of California,
and (c) that a Committee of Interurban Transportation be established in the City of
Alameda for the purpose of carrying into effect such policy as this Council may adopt
in the premises; and
WHEREAS said report has been received and fully oonsidered, and the recommenda-
tionstherein contained are deemed to be for the best interests of the City of Alameda,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY TUE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA that it
hereby approves and adopts in principle the recommendations set forth in said report,
and that a committee on Interurban Transportation be appointed forthwith to carry out,
under the direction of this Council, the recommendations in said report contained.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly
and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in special
meeting assembled on the 15th day of February, 1937, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Calcutt, Maurer, Weichhart and President Eschen, (4).
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this 16th day of February, 1937.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
"Resolution No. 2136, APPROVING REPORT OF TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, introduced and
adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda on the 15th day of February, 1937.
City Cle,rk:nbtthe City of Alameda.