Reports Of The Commission On East Side Approach PDF Download

Excerpt from Reports of the Commission on East Side Approach: Created by City Council Resolution No; 49, Approved February 8th, 1910 On February 8th, 1910, a Commission was cre ated 'to consider and report to the City Council a plan for improved transportation facilities to and from the East Side of the City, by means of an easy grade highway, viaduct or tunnel, or any combination of the same, and any new or improved highway or highways necessary or desirable in connection therewith or relative thereto, and its recommendations as to how the same shall be carried out.' Pursuant to the foregoing, your Commission begs leave to report that it has considered the problem thus presented in its broadest application to the needs of the City and has attempted to solve it in a manner that will best serve the public aIt is evident that the growth of the City demands in this instance a highway of such a character as to accommodate all classes of travel, including street cars, vehicles of all other kinds, and pedestrians. With this thought in mind the Commission entered upon its task, and after a free discussion and interchange of ideas as to achievements along similar lines in other cities, and the peculiar phases of our own problem, Mr. John R. Freeman, the engineering member of the Commission, consented to work out a plan em bodying the general features outlined, a task which he has prosecuted to its completion in the form of the plan for an easy grade highway of grade, approximately 100 to 90 feet in width and open to sunlight, and for a new easy grade street from the proposed new highway at or near defoe Place to Congdon Street, herewith pre sented for your consideration, together with his clear and comprehensive report describing the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.