Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
BUILD HARBOR
HIGHWAYS FIRST
WATERWAYS COMMITTEE FOR
IMPROVEMENT
Suggests to Mayor and Council and to
County Commission an lmme-
diate Attention to Strip
Roads

Sidney A. Butler and Frank ]. Hart,
Waterways association to draft a state
ment on the need for good roads be-
tween the business district of Los An
geles and Wilmington harbor, yester-
day sent the following letter to the
mayor and city council:
I'm compliance with a resolution
unanimously passed by the Municipal
Waterways association at it's regular
meeting of January Ia the undersigned
committee was directed to lay before
you the following considerations and
urge immediate action thereon.
1.-THE plans for the construction Of
the new county permanent highways
includes a permanent highway running
from the southern end of Main street
thence southerly parallel to the strip
down to the northern boundary Of Will
mington, thence westerly along said
northern boundary of Wilmington to
the easterly boundary of the Los An
geles strip at the northwest corner Of
the city of Wilmington.
THE commercial needs Of the city Of
Los Angeles and of the city Of San
Pedro demand that q highway placed
upon traffic grades be opened and per-
manently improved from the said north
east corner of the city Of Wilmington
southerly within the 'shoestring strip
to Pacific avenue at the northerly
boundary Of San Pedro, that being
wholly within the jurisdiction of the
city Of Los Angeles and a portion Of
the highway which cannot be built by
the county authorities nor by the
authorities of San Pedro or of Whining
ton. The present roads northerly from
San Pedro to the 'shoestring strip are
practically impossible for traffic and
are working the greatest injury to the
business development and business in
terests which require the use of such
thoroughfare, and at the present time
there is no outlet northerly from San
Pedro except an almost impossible
country road between said points.
Your honorable body heretofore and
on November last unanimously passed
a resolution declaring it to be the
settled policy of the city of Los An
purposes the water front upon the outer
and inner harbors Of San Pedro as fast
as the same may come within the
jurisdiction Of the city Of Los Angeles,
and the passage of this resolution has
greatly cheered the people of San
Pedro in their efforts to secure annexa-
ton to Los Angeles and to fix in their
minds the necessity and advantage Of
annexation in order that the harbor
may be permanently improved.
I'VE would urge that as a part Of
such policy and to more effectually
carry it out the city should Immediately
open such highways as are within the
jurisdiction of this city in order to
facilitate the commerce and make the
haroor available for use.''
The committee also sent a letter to
the county highways commission show
ing the appreciation Of the Municipal
Waterways association Of the commits
sior's determination to provide ample
traffic facilities between Los Angeles
and the harbor. The committee in this
letter urged that the Importance Of the
harbor highways is sufficient to secure
their permanent improvement first
Of all.