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Home My WebLink AboutRES NO 31-49R E S 0 L U T I 0 N NO. 31-49 WHEREAS, State Highway Route 57, also known as Highway 178, which passes through the City of Bakersfield in a general easterly and westerly direction, is carrying an ever-increasing volume of traffic, and WHEREAS, the aforementioned highway as presently laid out does not provide a direct route through the City of Bakersfield but meanders over several streets in the city which are already congested by local traffic and traffic from other highways leading into the city, and WHEREAS, the present route crosses at grade the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad and State Route 4, also known as U. S. Highway 99, and as a result traffic using said State Route ~7 is often delayed in its passage through the City of Bakersfield, and WHEREAS, in order that the full traffic-carrying capacity of said State Route %7 may be fully realized, said route should be realigned so as to provide a more direct route through the city, and a grade separation over the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad and State Route 4, also known as U. S. Highway 99, should be provided. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Bakersfield does hereby urge and recommend to the California Highway Commission that State Route 57, also known as Highway 178, be realigned so as to provide a more direct route through the City of Bakersfield, preferably by designating Niles Street from Baker Street to Union .Avenue as a' portion of said route, and further recommend that the program of improvement of said route as so re- aligned include in 'one and the same unit tile construction of a grade separation connecting Niles Street at Union Avenue with 24th Street west of State Route 4. Be it further resolved that a certified copy of this resolution be forwarded to the California Highway Commission. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution w~s passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on the I~ day of September, 1949, by the · following vote: AYES: CARNAKi5, CROSS, ~U~-~;~CT, MORELOCK, SH. URLEY, SIEMON, VANDERLE~~', NOES: ____.":'2':l.am~=m..~ ......................................... ABIENT: ........ ' -~ ........... C~ CZe2k ~ ~-O~c~o C~e~ o: ~he Co~c~Z o~ ~he C~ ~9: ~a~e~s~e~, APPROVED this /C} day of September, 1949- MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield.