t ,~, ~'i - annual report issue ~.. .,; ~~~ ~~ ~ \ ~ _ ~ , -w,A ~ ~ w Letters of Transmitta December 19, 1966 December 20, 1966 MR. JOHN ERRECA EDMUND G. BROWN Director of Public Works Governor of CaPifornia State of California My Dear Governor: Sir: Dear am pleased to submit to you the 20th Annual Report of am submitting herewith for your approval and transmittal the Division of Highways. to the Governor, the 20th Annual Reporf of the Division of Done in a shorter, more popularized form, this year's report, Highways for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966. The report believe, still presents the highlights of how the nation's most was prepared in compliance with Section 143 of the Streets populous state is meeting and overcoming the challenge of an and Highways Code. ever increasing traffic demand by moving ahead in the con- As before, the text portion of the report with accompanying struction of what is undoub#edly the world's finest highway and illustrations is being published as the November—December freeway system. issue of Ca`ifornia Highways and Public Works magazine. De- Totaling some 14,215 miles at the end of the fiscal year, tailed financial statements, tables and contract statistics will the state highway system included 1,945 miles of freeways. appear in a supplement which will be available to anyone on Though comprising only 2 percent of the state's paved driving request. surfaces, these freeways carry a quarter of the state's traffic Although a large portion of the past fiscal year's highway load and have proved three times as safe to drive upon as program continued to be devoted to completion of the inter- conventional highways. state system, significant progress was also made in implement- Significant progress was -also made in completing our share ing the state's Freeway and Expressway Act of 1959. Of the (2,165 miles) of the federal interstate system. Approximately 12,500 route miles decreed by the Legislature, 7,323 (59 per- $1,602,365,000 has been spent, in completing 922 miles and cent) now have been adopted by the California Highway Com- in putting under construction or budgeting another 512 miles. mission and 4,240 (34 percent) have been built or are under Most of this mileage is in highly urbanized areas where right- construction. of-way and construction costs are high. The bulk of the system Following completion of a comprehensive inventory of acci- remaining to be built is in rural areas where construction nor- dent concentration locations on the entire state highway mally presents fewer problems and proceeds much more rapidly system, plans are now going ahead to correct 1,700 locations at much less. cost. at a cost of $30,000,000 plus an additional $6,500,000 in Excellent progress also was made in the state's safety road- cooperation with local jurisdictions. Target completion date is side rest program with 31 eompleted, 12 under construction September 1, 1969. It is estimated that there will be 4,800 and 89 more programmed. fewer accidents per year when all projects are completed. More and more emphasis is being placed on the "complete" highway, a total package of function, safety and aesthetics. Respectfully, The division initiated a comprehensive educational program for its personnel to reemphasize the importance of aesthetics in the location and design of highways. Respectfully, J. C. WOMACK State Highway Engineer JOHN ERRECA Director of Public Works CALIFORNIA h ig I~ways and public works VOLUME 45 NOVEMBER—DECEMBER 1966 NOS. i i —i 2 CALENDAR OF MEETINGS 2 john c. robinson, Editor Stewart mitchell, Managing Editor CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS-1966 3 William r. Chaney, Chief PhotogYajiher OPERATIONS ~ editors are invited to use information contained herein and to request prints of any black and «'hite photographs. CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS ,O Address communications to BOB 13 NANCE, INFORMATION OFFICER PLANNING CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC WORKS P.O. BOX 1499 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95807 DESIGN ZO BRIDGES—THE NEW LOOK 24 ADMINISTRATION Z$ LEGAL 3O RIGEiT OF WAY 3~ FISCAL MANAGEMENT 3Z BUDGET $~ Cover design by Bill Metzel. Color layouts by Chock Jong. ~:. ~u~ Franklin S. Payne ,,.~, ~+ , ,, g James A. Guthrie '!&,~"^' Died August 23, ]966 William S. Whitehurst The California Highway Commission has six members, appointed by the Governor for afour-year term without pay. The Transportation Agency Administrator is ex officio member and chairman. The commission meets each month to allocate highway funds and hold public hearings. During the year Franklin S. Payne re- signed, and the Governor appointed Alexander H. Pope as his replacement. CALENDAR OF MEETINGS California Highway Commission JULY 1, 1965, TO JUNE 30, 1966 July 15; 1965__________ _______________Newport Beach January 19, 1966___________________..__ .______Sacramento Aerial and ground inspection of future freeway locations in Orange County. February 16 ___________________ __________.Sacramento July 21 ---------------- .----------------------- Sacramento March 11________________________________________Portland, Oregon Meetinb with State Highway Commissions of Oregon and Julyzz, 23---------------- ----------------------------------------------- sijou Washington re problems of mutual interest, including relation- Inspection of State highway needs in Sacramento and El ships of highways and State parks, and the financing of inter- Dorado counties and a meeting with State of Nevada Highway state freeways and other high~i~ays. Board concerning highway problems in the Lake Tahoe area. March 15------------------------------------------------------------Sacramento August 13-------- ----------- -----------------------------.Los Angeles Meeting with legislators, local officials and members of the Public hearing on the location of the Route 42 (Century) Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce re highway progress Freeway between Sepul~~eda Boulevard and Central Avenue. in Humboldt County. August 18, 19_..___._______________________________________ San Francisco March16------ -------------------------------------------------Sacramento Redding August 20-----------=------------------------------------ ---------- March24 Upland Inspection highways in Shasta County. ------------------------------------------------------------------ of State A4eeting with legislators, local officials and members of the September 16____.___________________________________________.Beverly Hills Foothill Freeway Association re freeway development. Public hearing on the location of the Route 2 (Beverly Hills) April 20- ----------- --------------------San Jose Freeway Interstate 405 (San Diego) Freeway and between the Meeting with the board of supervisors and technical staff re in Los Ardmore Avenue Angeles. the county's expressway program, followed by a helicopter September 2'2, 23--_-_--_--__-_----------------_---__-_---.Sacramento inspection of these expressways and state highways in Santa Clara County. September 24-----------------__-----------------------___-_-__--Santa Rosa Meeting with legislators and representatives of the Redwood April21-------------------------------------------------------------Sacramento Empire Association re State highway needs in the northern April22 -----------------------------------------------------------------Bishop coastal counties. Public hearing ors the location oY the US 395 Freeway between Warm Springs Road and the Mono county October 20, 21------------------ ----------------------------------San Diego 1.7 miles south of on the location of the Route 6 Freeway between Regular monthly business meeting including adoption of the. line, and US 395 and 03 mile north of Dixon Lane. State Highway Budget for the 1966-67 fiscal year. ~~~ay 18, -----------------------------------------------Los Angeles November 3__________ _________________ _Los Angeles 19-- Meeting with Governor Edmund G. Brown re state highway June8 ------------------------------------------------------Woodland Hills Route 64 program and problems. Public hearing on the location of the (Malibu-Whit- nall) Freeway in its entirety between Route 1 near Malibu November 4_____________ Los Angeles Beach and the Interstate 5 (Golden State) Freeway in San Meeting with Board of Directors of the Southern California Fernando Valley. Rapid cooperation develop- Transit District re in coordinating June22 -----------------------------------Sacramento ment of the rapid transit system ~~irh the freeway system. -------- --------- June 23-------------------------------- ------ -------------Los Banos November 17______..______________________________________.Sacramento section Highway inspection and dedication of a of the Inter- December 15 ________ _________________ Sacramento state S (Westside) freeway west of Los Banos. ~~ a •~ orn~a• i -was Setting up a reference length bar for photographically measuring culvert dis- tortion under 167-foot-high fill at Apple Canyon, Los Angeles County. At the close of the fiscal year (June way system. Yet these very busy miles time, it will constitute approximately 30, 1966) 14,215 miles of California made up less than 2 percent of the 10 percent of the paved highways, state highways were in operation. This state's paved driving surfaces. roads and streets in California but will complex was augmented by 150,034 The remainder of the state highway carry 60 percent of the traffic. miles of city streets, county roads and system accounted for another quarter Progress made to date toward this miscellaneous thoroughfares. of the miles driven, thus relieving city goal can be measured