The San Francisco call., 1909-10-07
MILES OF STREETS
WILL Be IMPROVED
Board of Public Works Takes
Action for Pavement of
200 Blocks

OAKLAND. Oct improvement Of
200 blocks Of streets in the factory,
residential and business districts is TO
be undertaken by this city, in accord
ance with plans laid months ago. Su-
perintendent Of Streets Walter c.
Howe has collected information as to
the accepted and unaccepted streets of
the city and submitted 10 the board of
public works this morning report of
- highways which are most in need OF
Immediate Improvement.
The board adopted a resolution ask
ing the city council 10 order the streets
improved according TO the superln-
1endents report. the cost TO be borne
bs the property owners in the various
districts
The factory district, where the
heaviest trucking is done. is TO be
paved with asphalt or basalt blocks,
according to the volume OF trafnc on
The street. Basalt blocks VIII probaply
he laid in First street between WASH
ington, and KirkhsTf: in Second ano
Third streets between Broadway and
oak. and in Third street from Gay TO
Market This is the water front dis
trict on the estuary and contains rail-
road depots and foundries.
STANDARD asphalt pavements are TO be
laid in these streets.
Twenfietb street between Telegraph sud sEe-
nue and Harrs9p Twenty .hrst s1[ee. seod
street between Broadway and Webster Grand
svenuP between Webster aud harrlsoa sEeSts-
1wenfy-third street between Telegraph avenue :
an6 Webster Tuentv-fourth. Twenty -afth and
Twenty-siSth streets between letegral aFenN NJ
and Broadway. Bay place between bfoSu"0s anu
Harrison street
These streets will be regarded, cuIDeu
end paved with standard asphalt:
Harrison street between First snd Tenth !.
Fourth street between Franklin 5ho ilatl az =
Fifth. Sixth and seventh between broaoHay ,Il ano
Harrison Eighth and Aintb . betNeen "a 9Iorr5
and Harrison. Tenth between Aenstet hu9 -rL
son. Alice and Jackson between First ana !elll., @
Madison between Second and Ientn SaA - fo,,
Third and Tenth. Lake between Oak ana SsSS t
son. Jackson between Lake ana .tir5
Brush between Fourteenth anu ANen,s st 'ir ris
Grove between Fourteenth and lEehtttth,
feenth and Seventeenth between bros0NeE Sn S
Franklin, asphalt or bssait blocks. t. 1850 spd
FOURTH between CLAY and Market Fffh Det"eeh
Washington and Kirkhsm-
TWenty-three blocks in East "a
land are included in the proposed work.
T-i-st avenue between East Twelfth ano
East seventeenth streets VIII De paNeo
with standard asphalt. The remain
ing streets will be improved win re-
grading. curbing and macadamizlng' as
follows: g.
and Tueuty-second avenues. East Nineteentl
street between Eighteenth and Twenty ,secSno S1r
svenues East Twentieth street between SIN
7esn-h and Nineteenth avenues Eighteenth ave
slue between East Sineteenth snd East Iwenty
FIRST streets. Twenty second avenue oetNeeh Ess ,
s xfeenrh and East Seventeenth streets l-as'
rTurenfv-frst street between Thirteenth ana 7 our
feerfh avenues. Vsllecito place from East lweh-
1r-seeond street northeriE. Fourteenth anelue @
,snd Bruce street between Hopkins ana MiltDuI.
Fssf Thirty first and East Thirty-third sneets
heru-een Thirteenth and Fourteenth avenues.
Maca dam pavement viii be laid II
these streets in North Oakland;
-rhirty-sizth street between San Pablo sEenae
e-s Grove street Thrty-eiEhfh street between
Ssr PsbIo avenue end Adeline street, lnirty-
nth end TventF- seventh streets betNeeh sdD
Pablo avenue and Market street
This scheme when carried out VIII
provide direct chains of wen paved
through streets in all sections OF the
city. The superintendent OF sFee0s
has been given discretion in the mate-
f-isIs 10 be used in the different hlgh-
zvavs. and he recommends that the use
of basalt blocks in the lower business
section he extended as stone pave
r0ents become necessary.