Name/Title
Report by Ralph A. Tudor on alternative Toll Crossings, 1949Entry/Object ID
2012.41.18Description
Acc. No. 12.41.18
Subject or Category: City of Alameda; Transportation
Date or Period: c. 1949
Object: publication
Description:
Softbound book, titled 'A Report to Department of Public Works on Additional Toll Crossings of San Francisco Bay', dated October 1949, subtitled 'As Proposed by Consultants to Assembly Interim Committee'.
Photo copied book with typewriter typed layout. Includes traffic studies, cost estimates, field investigations, financing, etc. Contains maps.
History of Object:
A study by Ralph A. Tudor, Chief Engineer, Division of San Francisco Bay Toll Crossings of two additional toll crossings. A) alongside the existing Bay Bridge called the Parallel Bridge; B) from Army St. in San Francisco to Fifth St., Alameda continuing with a tube under the estuary to Oakland, known as the Southern Crossing.
Found in the attic of City Hall prior to renovations in the 1990s.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: July 25, 2012