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,
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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
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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;
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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
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