Resolution 02325RESOLUTION WO. 2325
REQUESTING RESTORATION OF PASSENGER FERRY SERVICE
BETWEEN THE CITIES OF ALAKEDA ni,TD SAN FRANCISCO.
WHEREAS, rail service over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for
transportation of commuters from the East Bay region, and partieularly from the
City of Alameda, was inaugurated by the Interurban Electric Railway Company on
January 15, 1939; and
WHEREAS, there bas occurred a serious breakdown of train schedules in
the operation by said company of its electric trains from Alameda to San Francisco
which has resulted 11, great delays and inconvenience to the commuting public; and
WHEREAS, it appears that existing conditions are the result net only
of mechanical defects in rolling equipment and lack of coordination of the entire
bridge service but also to the failure of mechanical devices and minor mishaps which
are likely to reoccur from time to time; and.
WHEREAS, the bridge railway facilities are now taxed to capacity during
peak hours of travel and it appears that headway between. trains on said bridge during
such. peak hours cannot be further reduced with safety, nor can the number of cars
constituting each individual train he increased no as to carry all the passengers
desiring transportation at such time; and
WHEREAS, it is apparent that commuters must of necessity be able to reach
their places of employment with some degree ef certainty, and that unless adequate
transportation service is immediately restored tha people of the City of Alameda will
sustain irreparable damage; and
WHEREAS, it appears that the simultaneous abandonment of all ferry service
and the inauguration of train service on all interurban lines over said bridge was
and is premature; and
WHEREAS, it is apparent that the various and varied causes which have
contributed to the breakdown at train transportation over said bridge are fundamental
111 nature and not wholly due to minor auses incident to the inauguration of a new
service, and that the situation cannot be remedied and normal and adequate service
re-established for a period of seme months to come, if et all;
NOY: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Alameda, that
the appropriate governnental agencies having jurisdiction and the operating carriers
be and they are hereby requested to take such immediate action as nay he necessary
to the end that passenger ferry service between the cities of Alameda and San Francisco
be restored forthwith as an emergency- measure and until such time as adequate and
satisfactory transportation service between said cities can be provided.
RESOLVED FURTHER that certified copies of this resolution be forwarded
forthwith to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the California Toll Bridge
Authority and the Railroad. Commission of the State. of California, and to Hon. Hiram
johnssn, Hon. Albert E. Carter, Hen. George P. Miller, Interurban Electric Railway
Co. and Key System.
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 adjourned
regular meeting assembled on the 16th day of January, 1939, by the following vote, to
wit:
AyES: Councilmen Carrington, Godfrey, Maurer, Morris and President Weichhart,
NOES: None. ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set ry hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this lgth day of January, 1939.
ELLER DTER
City Clerk of the City of Alameda.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
'Resolution No. 2325, REQUESTING RESTORATION OF PASSENGER FERRY SERVICE BETWEEN THE
CITISE OF ALAMEDA AND SAN FRANCISCO", introduced and adopted by the Council on the
17th day of January, 1939.
City Clerk 01 the-Oity/of Alameda.