The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-04
CROSSING SAFETY
! SUBWAY REVIEWED
) BY ENGINEER FRAHM
!. State Highway Commission
Secretary Suggests Diff
cuIties Facing Plan
)
sFEOERAL AID OBSTACLES
FNo Government Money for City
Road Improvement Where
Houses Are Built Close
FEDERAL AID OBSTACLES

& The underpasS requested Of tho
: state highway commission by the city
and county commissions and the AS
ISOLATION Of Commerce will entail an
: expenditure of from $500. 900 to $685.
COO. III the opinion of H. c. Frahm.
chief engineer and secretary of the
commission.
j, Engineer Frahm has prepared a re-
sspcr5 to that effect, but has not yet
{. served copies on the THREE bodies in
torcsted and which put the proposal
before the highway commission about
the first of the year.
The project is complicated by fed
eral aid regulations by which no gov
ornInent money can be applied to
1 highway work in a city, except in por-
J tons where the houses arc not closer
! tran 200 feet apart.
! This regulation makes it difficult
to select a proper crossing for the
location. Of the pass. Fourteenth
( street is too far down. most crossings
: in the central part of the city are too
: Closely built up. Fifth street. which
otherwise would be we'll located. can
: hardly Be considered because of the
N. P. depot, the freight warehouse
and the Patterson hotel. Fourth
street is blocked by the location of the
electric light plant. while at Sixth
street there are eight tracks. The
report tentatively locates the under
pass III the section between Third and
Sixth streets. because these are Gig
lble for federal aid.
tvculd -,r Road Ero,, y,Cef
The step required to set the project
in motion is a resolution from the
board OF county commissioners. in the
opinion Of Engineer Frailm. The
matter of dealing with the city COM
mission is left to the county board.
Their joint conclusions can thus be
presented to the highway commits
sion.
The road to connect witch the un-
deTpasS is that extending by Fort
Lincoln and running from a poin. a
little south of the present Apple
Creek bridge, in q northwestern di-
rcctio1 TO the city.
The crossing near the state prison
could be LETT as IN opcn-view cross
ing. according to Engineer Frahm. or
ca undsrpass could be constructed
there fer about $50, 900.
Dividing Cess
Tilc engineer suggests that the
county could carry the entire expense
Of right Of way Of the proposed road
md the cnc-fourth OF the cost of on
atructic.l. provided the state furnishes
federal aid and state funds to the
amount OF IS per cent Of the cost Of
the improvement.
There is a suggestion i'll the report
Is to meeting the cost of the under
rass. thai so per cent be borne by
federal cid. SO per cent by the North
ern Pacific OH all construction within
its right OF wav limits between the
south line OF Main avenue and Front.
other costs. which will be one-half
Of the approaches outside the right
Of way. u half the cost OF the storm
sewer that will probably need to be
constructed, and the property GAM
age, to be arranged by the county
commissioners with the city commits
sion.
Construction Features
Possible features in the construc-
tAOAA SCo ACA vi W Wiz 1CC0AL CsAC.
That the railroad tracks be raised
enough to avoid much cutting on
Main avenue.
That Main avenue be raised a few
feet. the traffic from under the rail-
road tracks TO continue through un-
der Main avenue to reach tie street
at Broadway.
That Main avenue be not disturbed,
the traffic coming through from the
south under the tracks to turn to the
right and left and climb out at cor
ners a block east and west OF Fifth
street, emitting any straight en-
trance into the underpass.
The pass would have two openings
for vehicles Of not less than % feet
width, and two additional openings
for sidewalks of about 10 feet width
each, the entire structure to be OF
permanent reinforced concrete con-
struction.