The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
ORDINANCE NO. oss.C

ORDINANCE NO. 9Ss-C
 AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE
 FOR THE ELIMINATION OF
 THE EIGHTEENTH STREET GRADE CROSSING. ~
 BE IT ORDAINED by the Commits sion of the City of Birmingham, as follows:
 Section i. That the railroad com panies now having and using railroad tracks on Eighteenth Street in Bir- mingham, Alabama, between a line 155 feet south of and parellel with the north line of Morris Avenue. if extended westward and a line 1885 feet north of and parallel to the north line of Powell Avenue, be and they are hereby required in the interest of pub lie safety, welfare and convenience, 10 construct and maintain at their own expense bridge and it's ap- breaches. along and over said Eigh- teenth Street, suitable and sufficient to carry said railroad traffic above the grade of and across said Eigh- tecnth Street, and the vehicular, foot and street railway trnffic on and along said Eighteenth Street and be- heath the superstructure of said bridge Said bridge shall consist of steel or Portland cement concrete. or com binatiOn of same, and solid nOn-leak- able floors shall be provided in the superstructure thereof. The north and south center line of said bridge (here- matter referred to as the center line of said bridge) shall be on and along ] the center line of Eighteenth Street as now established. Three lines of col umns or supports for said bridge will be permitted. The east face of the the west line of columns shall be placed at q distance not less than thirty-five (S5) feet and six (6) inches from the center line of said bridge cast line of columns shall be placed (35) feet and six (6) inches ffom the center line of said street and bridge. If center columns are used, the center placed along the center line of the bridge or the street. The east face of the west abutment and the west face of the east abutment shall be fifty (50) feet from and parallel to the center line of said bridge and street.
 Said bridge shall provide for a road way and the curbs thereof between the faces of the east and west lines of columns of a minimum width of seventy-one CID feet inclusive of the central line of columns or supports, and with minimum head-room clear ance of fourteen (14) feet, and for sidewalk spaces on each side of said roadway. each of which sidewalk spaces shall have a minimum headroom clear ance of thirteen (13) feet and a mini mum horizontal clearance of fifteen (15) feet including width of columns and curbs. The distance between curbs shall be not less than seventy (70) feet. Electric conduits or ducts shall be installed within the super structure of said bridge with sufficient outlets to permit the installation of an adequate number of electric lights to be located along the underside of said superStructure.
 Section 2. That the said railroad companies shall be allowed in carry ing on the construction ordered in Sec tion i of this ordinance to lower the surface of Eighteenth Street, subject to the following provisions and con ditions:
 (a) That the depression of the street on a line parallel with and four hundred and forty-fiVe (445) feet south of the south line of First Ave nue shall be at an elevation of not lower than five hundred ninety-two and sixteenth-hundredths (592.16) feet according to the Standard B. M. datum of the Engineering Department of the City of Birmingham, and the surface of said depressed street shall rise nOrthwardlY from said elevation at an upward grade of three-tenths (0.3) per cent for distance of one hundred and fifteen 115) feet, thence upward on a one (1.0) per cent grade to in- tersect the present street surface of said Eighteenth Street. From the said elevation of five hundred ninety two and sixteen -hundredths (592.16) feet on a line parallel with and four hun dred and forty-five (445) feet south of the south line of First Avenue; the depressed street shall rise southwardly or a three-tenths (0.3) per cent grade upward for q distance of one hundred and fifteen (115) feet from said 445- foot line, and thence sOuthward and up- ward on a three (30) per cent grade to intersect the present street surface of said Eighteenth Street provided, however, that vertical curves of fifty foot (50-ft.) lengths shall connect said intersecting grades.
 (b) That said railroad companies shall construct suitable approaches to the depressed street under the rail road tracks, and shall pave the street under the railroad tracks and the ap- breaches thereto, and shall construct suitable sidewalks and curbs and pro- vide for and construct suitable drain age in said street and replace any disturbed storm water or sanitary sewers.
 (c) That upon completion of said bridge the use of so much of the three railroad tracks which lie south of nearest Morris Avenue if produced westward and across Eighteenth Street as lie between the west and east lines of Eighteenth Street shall be discon- tinued and the rails of said tracks re-