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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ment of the city. The choice is not between a large ex-penditure if these recommendations are adopted and a small one if they arenot: it is rather between an adequate and carefully planned developmentwithout wasteful expenditures and a haphazard growth dictated, in themain, by private interests, from the standpoint of each individual road.In either case the burden of capital and operating costs must, in the end,fall on the public. It is impossible to estimate in dollars the direct and indirect savingsand benefits through the carrying out of these plans that will accrue to therailroads, to the passengers and to the shippers and also to the people andenterprises afifected by transportation conditions. We have no hesitation insaying, however, that from the financial standpoint alone, the proposed ex-penditure is justified. In the larger aspect of city planning, there can be nodoubt that the City of Los Angeles should use every effort to assist in thecarrying out of these recommendations.
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NORTH BROADWAY BRIDGE, LOS ANGELESThis bridge across the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Salt Lake lines marks the first comprehensive stepof the city of Los Angeles in the permanent elimination of grade crossings.About 17,000,000 people per year use this viaduct. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 59 Unification of Railroad Lines and Service in Cities (A Statement of Fundamental Principles) THE importance of early unification of railroad lines and service in cities,and the prevention of further duplication and waste, has been for a longtime appreciated by both the carriers and by city officials. To get at acommon basis of solving the problem the National Conference on City Planningm 1919 appointed a committee to investigate, and their report was presented atthe recent meeting in Cincinnati. This committee consisted of Mr. Nelson PLewis, Chief Engineer of the City of New York and President National Con-ference on City Planning; Col. William J. Wilgus, Chief Engineer, New YorkCentral Railroad;

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