The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-24
ORDINANCE NO. ss7.C.
URDINANCE NU. BBI.C. - AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF THE FOURTEENTH STREET GRADE CROSSING

sion of the City of Birmingham, as fol- lows:
 Section 1. That the railroad com panies now having and using railroad tracks on Fourteenth Street in BirmiIig- ham, Alabama, between a line four hun dred thirty y-eight (438) feet south of and parallel with the south line of First Avenue, and a line one hundred ond (194) feet north of and parallel with the north line of Powell Avenue if extended westward, be ard they are hereby required in the inter- est of Public safety, welfare and con- yenience, to construct and maintain ut their own expense a bridge and its ap- breaches on. along and over sald Fourteenth Street, suitable and Suffi- cient to carry said railroad tracks and railroad traffic above the grade of and across said Fourteenth Street, and the vehicular. foot and street railway traf- fic on and along said Fourteenth Street and beneath the superstructure of said bridge. Said bridge shall con- sist of steel or Portland cement coI- crete, or a combination of same, and solid, non-leakable floors shall be pro- vided in the superstructure thereof. The said railroad companies may, however, the use of so much of the fourth track north of and nearest Pow eE Avenue. if extended as lies within street and remove the rails thereof from Fourteenth Street, in lieu of elevating the same. The north anu south center line of said bridge (here- matter referred to as the center line of said bridge) shall be formed on and along and concentric with the center line of Fourteenth Street as now es- abolished. Three lines of columns or supports for said bridge will be per mitted. The east face of the west line of columns shall be placed at distance not less than twenty-five (25) feet and six (6) inches from the center line of said bridge, and the west face of the east line of columns shall be placed at a distance not less than twenty five feet and six (2J-6'') inches from and parallel with tie center line of said bridge. If center columns are used, the center line of the center columns shall be placed on and along the center lire of the bridge. The east face of the west abutment shall be placed at Il distance not less than forty (40) feet from and parallel to the center line of said bridge, and the west face of the east abutment shall be placed at dis tance of forty (40) feet east of and parallel to the center line of said bridge Said bridge shall provide for a roadway and the curbs thereof between the faces of the east and west lines of columns os minimum of fifty-one (51) feer inclusive of the center line of columns or supports, and with minimum head room clearance of fourteen (14) feet, aA fAa siI ooah ct1a of said roadway, each of which sidewalk room clearance of thirteen (13) feet fifteen (l5) feet, including width of columns and curbs. The distance be- tween curbs shall be not less than fifty feet, no inches (50'-0'D. Electric or ducts shall be installed with in the superstrucsure of said bridge with sufficient outlets to permit the in stallation of an adequate number of electric lights to be located along the underside of said superstructure.
 Section 2. That the said railroad shall be allowed in carrying on the construction ordered in Section One of this ordinance to lower the sur face of Fourteenth Street, subject to the following provisions and conditions:
 (a) That the depression of the street on a line parallel with and four hund- red ninety seven and five-tenths (497.5 feet south of the south line of First Avenue, shall be at an elevation of not lower than five hundred eighty and
 sevent -four one-hundredths (5S0.74) according to Standard Bench Mark da- tum of the Engineering Department Of the City of Birmingham, and the sur face of said street shall rise northward- ly and southwardly from said elevation at. an upward grade of Three tenth { (.30) per cent for a distance of sixty seven and five-tentIis (67.5) feet, thence upward on three (3.O) per cent grade to inteFsect the present street surface of said Fourteenth Street, provided however, that vertical curves of fifty (50) foot length shall connect said in- grades.
 (b) That said railroad companies shall construct suitable approaches to the depressed street under the railroad tracks. and shall pave the street under the railroad tracks and the approaches thereto, and shall construct suitable and curbs and provide foT and construct suitable drainage in said street and replace any disturbed storm water or sanitary sewer.
 (c) That upon completion of said bridge, the use of so much of the one track which lies south of and the nearest First Avenue and across Fourteenth Street as lie between the east and west lines of Fourteenth Street shall be discontinued and the rails of said tracks removed from said Fourteenth Street; and upon comple- tion of said bridge the use of so much of the three railroad tracks located north of and nearest Powell Avenue if extended westward and across Fourteenth Street as lie between the east and west lines of Fourteenth Street shall be discontinued and the rails of said tracks removed from said Fourteenth Street.
 Section 3. Any public utility having and using electric, telephone, telegraph. ducts and conduits, OF water, gas or steam mains or pipes in that portion of Fourteenth Street to be affected by the improvement provided for in this ordinance, shall, as the improvement progresses, lower said ducts, conduits, mains or pipes to the proper depth be- low any new grade of said street, which said changes shall be made under plans by the City Engineer and un- der his direction. And any public util- ity having telephone, telegraph or eiec- tric wires on or along or across thar portion of Fourteenth Street affected by the improvement provided for in this ordinance shall, as and when the work on said bridge progresses, relocate said wires so as to run underground, which said changes shall be made in accord ance with plans approved by the City Engineer, and under his direction, but this provision shall not apply to the wires used by any of the railroad companies required by this ordinance to construct and maintain said bridge and i:s approaches.
 Section 4. That the estimated cost