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Passed by by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, ' , 1
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VOTING Yes No
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Lawrence V,_._
Morris - / I move that the ordinance be passed.oth. W
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Result AN ORDINANCE
.n ordinance requiring the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
to enlarge its viaduct across its railroad tracks at the intersec-
tion of North Temple Street with Fourth West Street in Salt Lake
City.
WHEREAS, The Oregon Short Line Railroad Company owns and
operates a railroad on Fourth West and other streets in Salt Lake
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City, State of Utah, which railroad runs from said City to other
planes in said state and in other states, and daily employs in such
service a large number of passenger and freight trains which are
propelled by steam power over its numerous tracks "which cross North
Temple Street at its intersection with Fourth West Street; and
WHEREAS, A large number of the inhabitants of this pity reside
on the west side of the said railroad tracks, whose business
affairs require them by day and by night to cross said tracks on
foot and in vehicles at the intersections of the streets aforesaid,
and the said traffic in both directions has been and now is very
large and is increasing; and
WHEREAS, In the year 1907, the said Oregon Short Line Railroad
Company, recognizing the danger in life, limb and property to
persons obliged to cross as aforesaid the tracks of the said rail-
road company, and with a view to protect the public against said
hazards, constructed a viaduct on and along said North Temple Street
over said Fourth West Street, said viaduct beginning on said North
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Temple Street at its intersection with Third West Street, and ex-
tending thence west about twelve hundred feet on said North Temple
Street, said viaduot having a roadway about twenty-three feet
wide, and a sidewalk about six feet wide on the south side of said
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roadway, and said roadway carrying double street-oar traoks; and
WHEREAS, The said viaduct was at the time of its construction
and ever since has been inadequate for the traffic and travel on
and along said North Temple Street intended to be served by it, an
has now become totally insuffioient for such purpose, to the great
delay and inconvenience of the public, and to its danger in life, 1
. limb and property: NOW THEREFORE,
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah:
SECTION 1. It is necessary for the protection of the public,
and the oonvenienoe and welfare of the inhabitants of Salt Lake
City demand, that the aforesaid viaduot along North Temple Street
over the tracks of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company on
Fourth West Street be widened, enlarged and improved as herein-
after prescribed.
SECTION 2. The said Oregon Short Line Railroad Company is
hereby direoted and required to reconstruct, improve and enlarge,
and thereafter to maintain, at its own expense, the viaduct hereto-
fore built by it along North Temple Street, in Salt Lake City, Ut4,
east and west on said street across said oompany's railroad traoks
situated between the west side of Third West Street and the west j
side of Fourth West Street; said structure shall be of a height
sufficient to permit safety clearance for all railroad purposes
and for general surface traffic at cross streets and for power
transmission lines; on the north side of the existing viaduct a
w one shall be built of a width sufficient for a roadway twenty-
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f:-.„ feet wide between curbs and for a sidewalk six feet wide on
the north side thereof; the grades of the approaches of the road
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way and sidewalks on each side shall not exceed seven per Dent; at
eaoh street in#erseotion there shall be a flight of steps on each
side leading to the street, and the sidewalk approaches at eaoh en.
shall be in incline conforming to the grade of the roadway; the
existing approaches to the viaduct shall be widened and straitened
so that the reconstructed viaduct shall have a total width of road-
way of at least fifty feet, and a sidewalk on each side thereof atll
least six feet wide; the sidewalk on the south side of the existing
structure shall be reconstructed of cement instead of plank, and
shall be extended at the west end on the same grade with the road-
way till it meets the street grade, and the west approach of the
completed structure shall be extended westward approximately seventy •
feet to meet the grade of the street; the new structure shall be
constructed either of a steel skeleton with creosoted wooden floor
joists and creosoted wooden sub-base, or of reinforced concrete
throughout, and either type of construction adopted shall conform
to the standard specifications for the material eipployed, and no
wooden railings shall be used; the new roadway added shall be
designed and constructed for ordinary road traffic, inoluding that
of a fifteen-ton road-roller or motor trunk, and the completed
structure shall provide for proper drainage; there shall be a re-
inforced concrete curb on the north side of the new roadway; Mut
the surface of the roadway on the main portion of the new structure
or wherever the grade permits, shall be of oreosoted wooden blocks,
and on the approaohes either stone blocks or bituminous concrete
shall be laid, and any base where stone blocks or bituminous con-
orate is laid shall be of oonorete six inches thick; wooden blocks
shall be laid on creosoted sub-timbers four inches think. and suoh.
sub-timbers shall be laid on oreosoted floor-joists five inches by
sixteen inches in dimension; all sub-timbers and floor-joists
shall receive a creosote treatment of twelve pounds per cubic foot,
and all wooden blocks a creosote treatment of sixteen pounds per
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cubic foot, and shall be thoroughly dry and free from sap before
being treated, and all wooden blocks, stone blocks or bituminous
concrete used in the construction of the toadway shall meet the
requirements of standard specifications for such oonetruotion; pro-
vision shall be made for the installation of neoessary lighting
poles and the necessary wiring of the same for lights, and provision
shall also be made by bridging or other suitable means to prevent
smoke from riming between the two portions of the completed etruot e.
SECTION 3. All columns, pillars or supports of the super-
structure necessarily required to be planed in any part of the
street hall be so constructed and placed as not to interfere
materially with the public traffio and use of such streets, and to
maintain intaot the City Creek Aqueduct; and all work pertaining
to the construction of the viaduct shall be done to meet the approval
of the City Engineer and the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City.
SECTION 4. The plans and specifications for the construction
of said viaduct shall be made and provided by the said railroad
oompany within sixty days after a copy of this ordinance shall hav
been served upon the said company, and thereupon within said time
presented to the City Engineer and the Board of Commissioners of
said city for their approval. When said plane and specifications
are approved by the City Engineer and Board of Commissioners, the
said railroad company shall within two months thereafter begin the
construction of said viaduct, and thereafter continuously oarry on
said work of construction, and complete the same in such time as
it may reasonably do, but in any event, shall finish the entire
work within rW x.w months from the date of the service of thi
ordinance upon said company.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect upon publication
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Due service of certified covf the within and foregoing
ordinance hereby admitted this /c7, — day of APRIL A.D.1915.
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Vice President & General Manager
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