Laserfiche WebLink
<br />RESOLtJT ION <br /> <br />RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Redwood City <br />urge the immedia.te completion of the widening of El Camino Real to the <br />scrutherly line of San Mateo County, to-wit) to San Francisquito Creek, <br />and earnestly recommend, against ending at Broadway in Redwood City the <br />work now in progress, for the following reasons: <br /> <br />(1) EI Camino Real is one of the main highways between the <br />two principal cities of California, namely, San Francisco and Los Angeles. <br />Notwithstanding the availability of the Bayshore Highway, much through <br />traffic. still uses El Camino Real. In view of the four lanes on this <br />highway in the area to the north of Redwood City and in the area to the <br />south of Palo Alto, the serviceability of the highway will be unreasonably <br />curtailed and rendered dangerous if the present two-lane highway (with <br />shoulders) is maintained through Redwood City, Atherton and Menlo Park. <br /> <br />(2) The great increase during recent years in the number of <br />homes and residents adjacent to El Camino Real on the easterly and west- <br />erly side thereof and the large amount of traffic that uses E1 Camino <br />Real as the most convenient means of travel between adjacent peninsula <br />points necessitate better accommodation for such traffic than is now <br />available. <br /> <br />(3) The very active building campaign of both homes and business <br />buildings in southern San Mateo County will tend to increase the use of <br />EI Ca.mino Real between Broadway, Redwood City, and the C1 ty of Palo A1 to J <br />during the next several years to such an extent that traffic will be <br />greatly impeded. unless a Ilbott1e neckll is avoided by immediate extension <br />of the four-lane highway within that area. <br /> <br />(4) The substantial increase of traffic on EI Camino Real due <br />to the early opening of the Golden Gate Bridge no one questions. Not only <br />during 1939 for the Exposition on Treasure Island, but in the meantime, <br />due to interest in the building of this great exposition, traffic will be <br />dangerously impeded unless thi s work is undertaken in the very near future. <br /> <br />BE IT FL~THER RESOLVED, that copies of this Resolution be sent <br />to the Highway Commission of California, to Colonel John H. Skeggs, Dis- <br />trict Engineer thereof, Senator Harry L. Park~1, Assemblyman Harrison <br />Call J and to Earl Lee Kelly.; Director of Public Works, State of California. <br /> <br />I, B. E. ll.r.ERS, Clerk of the City of Redwood City, hereby <br />certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution unanimously <br />adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council thereof held on April 19, <br />1937. <br /> <br />Clerk of <br /> <br /> <br />R. ~. <br /> <br />.--' <br />