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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 077-1976RESOLUTION NO. 77-76 RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Burlingame, California, that: WHEREAS, the problem of funding both intermediate repairs and an eventual full-scale interchange for State Route 92/U.S. 101 interchange has surfaced because of the hazardous deterior- ation of the timber portions of the 92/101 partially completed interchange; and WHEREAS, the Foran Bill has given the Metropolitan Trans- portation Commission control over the allocation of toll funds from the various bridges in the nine -county Bay Area; and WHEREAS, a project for the reconstruction of the Dumbarton Bridge is going forward using revenue bonds secured by receipts from the toll bridges throughout the Bay Area; and WHEREAS, State Route 92 is an extension of the San Mateo/ Hayward Bridge and a complement to the Dumbarton Bridge in that half of some trips of residents of the East Bay and the Peninsula are completed using State Route 84 (the Dumbarton Bridge) one way and State Route 92 (the San Mateo/Hayward Bridge) for the reverse half of the trip; and WHEREAS, State Route 92, including the interchange with U.S. I101, is an approach road to the bay toll bridge system and, as ,such, complements the bridge use; and WHEREAS, State Route 92 and the interchange with U.S. 101, I should be a recipient of receipts from the tolls for use of the bridge system to upgrade and maintain the function of the bridge ,approaches; and 1 WHEREAS, State Route 92 is a vital arterial intertie route connecting Interstate 280 on the west side of San Francisco Bay to Interstate 580 on the east side; NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that: 1. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission be requested Ito agree to allocation of bridge tolls, or impose a surcharge, if (necessary, for intermediate and final improvements and construction Ilof the State Route 92/U.S. 101 freeway interchange. 2. The State of California Transportation Department and the Legislature be requested to provide and approve the administration of funds from bay toll crossings to a project to: a. Construct interim repairs to the San Mateo State Route 92/U.S. 101 interchange. b. Fund the final construction of a completed inter- change for State Route 92/U.S. 101 as an adjunct of the San Mateo/ Hayward Toll Bridge and a complement to the Dumbarton Toll Bridge project. 3. The State of California take immediate steps to re- lease, at an early date, frozen CALTRANS funds so that various critically needed Statewide transportation projects, including the 92/101 interchange ultimate construction, can replace the ;temporary wooden pile supported interchange, a potential costly hazardous personal injury claim band -aid. 4. As additional worthwhile valid alternates the State of 'California prepare the necessary applications for: a. funding the ultimate construction of the 92/101 ('interchange via the Federal Public Works Bill process; b. for the use of CALTRANS discretionary funds; pq C. for the removal of State Route 92 (Half Moon Bay o the East Bay) from its present status and qualifying that State oute 92 by looping it into the U.S. Inter -State Highway system s a feeder to other local segments (580 and 280) of the U.S. nter-State Highway System. Victor Mangini Mayor ATTEST: Evelyn H�ll City Clerk I, EVELYN H. HILL, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was introduced at p regular meeting of the City Council held on the 4th day of October , 1976, and adopted thereafter by the following vote: AYES: Crosby-Harrison-Mangini-Partin NOES: None ABSENT: Amstrup Hill�� n City Clerk 3