Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
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SUPERVISORS WILLING
TO HURRY BRIDGE WORK
PaSadenanS to Soon Decide on
Type of Structure Over
Arroyo SeCo

PASADENA, Aug. 1.-The county
supervisors are ready to take up the
| question of assisting the projected
| bridge across the Arroyo Seco when
FEVER the Pasadena city council selects
! and recommends the kind of structure
wanted" says Supervisor c. d. Man
ming. 1--WE are in favor of bridges
wherever needed and will contribute
| our share toward either of the Pasa-
dena plans" he said, land personally
think the matter should be settled
soon. The board took up the question
with the county highway commission
some time ago and went on record
as favoring the project of. connecting
the San Gabriel and San Fernando
valleys with a bridge which should
form link in the foothill boulevard
| system We are ready when the 9TH
ers are"
c., D. Daggett, member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the board of trade
| bridge committee, who was chairman
of the county highway commission
when the Arroyo bridge project was
| launched declares that the commits
sion undoubtedly will look at the mat
ter from a utility standpoint rather
than from the point of making the
| bridge a part of Pasadena's Arroyo
boulevard project.
Although it was stated when City
| Engineer Samuel J. Van Ornum start
ed Saturday on his vacation that moth
| ing further would be done until his
return Mayor Farley had members Of
the city engineers department on the
ground Saturday setting stakes to
show the revised grade of 61a per
cent for the proposed approach to the
| low bridge. The stakes for the 8 per
cent grade formerly planned were left
standing and Mayor Farley states that
the engineers will today set stakes for
the purpose of showing the proposed
Az per cent grade leading to the pro-
! jected intermediate bridge. Stakes are
also to be set on the San Rafael side
of the arroyo showing where each Of
the proposed structures would land.
TO DECIDE ON TYPE
When all the stakes are set it is said
that the bridge committee of twenty
five will be called together to go over
the ground in detail and decide upon
which structure should be recommend
ed to the city council. The executive
committee of the bridge committee
some time ago recommended the inter-
mediate bridge, after having been
given power to act by the committee,
but this was before Mayor Farley had
the proposed low bridge approaches
surveyed.
| AdyOT EdIl6y HAS 6ApI6SS6u 1llnS6ll
as decidedly in favor of the low bridge
and he is endeavoring to convince the
bridge committee and others that the
plan proposed by himself and C. B.
Scoville is the best. He takes the stand
that there is no question of utility"
at stake, that most people who cross
the arroyo will be sightseers and that
the proposed grades and turns will be
easy of access to anyone who keeps
within the speed limit. Members Of
the bridge committee do not agree with
him and it will probably require
Joint meeting of the committee and the
city council to settle the matter.
The proposed intermediate bridge
favored by the committee would run
practically straight across the arroyo
from the foot of West Colorado street
with a per cent grade on the San
Rafael side and Az per cent on the
Pasadena side. The floor of the bridge
would be So feet below the established
grade of Colorado street at Grand av-
enue and would be 120 feet above the
bed of the arroyo.