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/~ ~~0t~ ~ ~ O G°3 ~9 ~ Q D o ~~d ~~e~~~ o~~~ ~~~s~~ t ~fi ~ ~~ i- .~.~y" x'~' y 9 g i ~. 1 ..~ fetters of ~ransmitta December 4, 1962 December 4, 1962 ROBERT B. BRADFORD EDMUND G. BROWN Director of Public Works Governor of California State of California My Dear Governor: Dear Sir: It is a pleasure to submit to you the 16th Annual Report of Submitted herewith for your approval and transmittal to the Division of Highways, Department of Public Works. The Governor Edmund G. Brown is the ]6th Annual Report of the report presents an overall view of the California highway Division of Highways. program for fhe 1961-62 fiscal year, and gives a broad picture This report is prepared in compliancz with Section 143 of of the steady progress which is being made to improve motor the Streets and Highways Code and generally covers the fiscal vehicle transportation facilities for our rapidly growing popu- year ending June 30, 1962. Some later information on the lation. construction program is included, as is the State Highway The end of 1962 finds California first among the states in Budget for fiscal 1963-64 as adopted by the California High- many other respects as well as population. way Commission on October 19, 1962. One of the principal areas of California's pre-eminence is The fruits of long-range planning and orderly construction in providing modern, toll-free multilane dividzd highways. We on the state freeway and expressway system, including those now have nearly 2,600 miles of these facilities in operation and routes included. in the national systEm of interstate highways, an additional 350 miles under construction, most of the latter are becoming increasingly evident. In 1962 more than 150 new being of the fu{I freeway type. miles of full freeway were opened to traffic, an increase of This leadership in modern highway construction is the result about one-third over the freeways opened in 1961. More than of long-time leadership in highway planning, crystallized in 50 miles of freeway were opened in the Los Angeles district 1959 with the enactment of the 20-year freeway and express- alone, including the long-awaited downtown freeway loop. way system master plan signed into law by you. More than More than 350 additional miles of freeway are under con- half of the route location mileage for this 12,400-mile system, struction. which includes California's 2,178-mile portion of the interstate At the same time construction is proceeding on other high- system, has now been adopted by the California Highway way improvements throughout the State, as rapidity as avail- Commission. able funds permit, in a continuing effort to attain a balanced EfFective planning is being continued and strengthened. program of meeting traffic needs. State-local co-operation is being emphasized in freeway Continuing the practice initiated in 1960, the text and illu- planning and design, including increasing attention to scenic strated portion of the annual report is again included in our and esthetic qualities as well as other community values. The bimonthly magazine, California Highways and Public Works. relatively few locations involving some appreciable degree of Financial statements, apportionment tables, contract statistics controversy may make headlines, but the vast majority of the and miscellaneous other data will be published separately in nearly 2,000 miles of routings adopted during the past four a Statistical Supplement. This supplement is available to inter- years have been worked out in harmony with local authorities. ested persons on request. Many of these sections have involved complex location prob- lems in urban areas. This continuing highway progress is paying huge dividends in safety as well as mobility. It is reliably estimated that our present completed mileage of full freeways is saving over 300 lives a year in California, on the basis of comparison with accident statistics for the inadequate transportation arteries J. C. WOMACK which the freeways have replaced. This saving of life and limb State Highway Engineer is one of our most significant accomplishments and, I know, the most gratifying to you personally. Respectfully, ~'~`'~ ROBERT B. BRADFOR7 Director of Public Works Califor~~a, Hig hwa Y s a.~d Public ~i~orks Official Journal of the Division of Highways, Department of Public Works, State of California Vol. 41 November-December 1962 Nos. 11-12 CONTENTS Page Departmental Organization Chart----__-_---_-_-__------_-_-_--___-__--_-_----_-_-_-- 2 California Highway Commission _________________- California Highways-1962 5 Operations ------------------------ -- - ---------------------------------------- ------- ---- — 21 Construction --- --------------- -------------------- ------------------------------ --- 21 Maintenance __________ 23 Materials and Research ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29 Equipment -- ----------------------------- -- ---- 34 Administration -------------------------------______ 37 Office Engineer ----------------------------------------- - ---- --- ---------------------- 37 County and Co-operative Projects ------__-_-__---_-_--------------__-_-__-----------__- 40 City and Co-operative Projects -__-_-___-___---_-_---_-----___-_------__-__--__-- 42 Service and Supply _ ________________________ 43 Management Analysis ------ - -------------------------------------------------------------- 44 Systems Research ________ ___ 44 Pl a n n i n g ------------------------ --- ---------------------------------------------------- 45 Advance Planning _ ______________________ 45 Photogrammetric Mapping and Aerial Photography __________________________ 46 Programs and Budgets - - - --------------------------------------------------------- 47 Design ___ 48 Traffic---- ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- - 50 FRONT COVER—Part of fhe freeway through Red- Highway Planning Su rveY -------------- ----- ----- ------------------- --------- 52 lands on U.S. 70-99 (Interstate 10) at fhe Cypress Bridges -----------__-_-_-_- 54 Avenue Undercrossing, completed in August 1962. The golden straw on the embankments provides ero- Bridge Planning ____ ____ 54 sion protection pending planting of trees, shrubs and Bridge Operations ____ 55 periwinkles. The palm frees were }ransplanted to their SpecialStudies ---------------------------------- ------ - -------- ----- -------------- 58 present location (photo by Robert Dunn). Bridge Office Engineering ------------------------------------------------------- 59 Special Projects ------------------- ---------------------- --- ----------------------- 59 State-Owned Toll Bridges --------------------------------------------------- -- 60 BACK COVER—Looking west along Carquinez Strait, Personnel and Public Information ---------_-__------_---------_-__--_-----_-__-----___--_-_ 62 with the new Benicia-Martinez Toll Bridge just west 62 of the movable-span Southern Pacific railway bridge Personnel ----------- ---- -- --- ---------------- - ------ - -------- ------------------- in foreground. Cify of Benicia at north end of bridge; Trai n i n J -------------------- ---- ----------------------------------------- 63 Carquinez Bridge in far background (photo by EmployeeSafety ---- - ----- ------- ---- ---------------- ---- -------------- 63 Robert Rose). Audio-Visual -- ------ -------------- ---- ---------- ---------------- --------- 65 Public Information ----- ---- -- ---------- ------------------------ ------------ - - 65 Right-of-Way - - - ----------- ---- - ---- ---- ------------------------ - - 67 Legal------ -- ------ - ----- --- --------- -- ---- - ---- - -- - - 69 Fiscal--- -- - -------------------------- - ---- - - --- - - ----------- - ---- 71 1962-63 Budget -------- ----- - - - -------- -- - --- 73 p ~~~ " ~ • ,, r~,N ~,~ , ;~, '~,~.A~ ~~ ~°'~a~ LESTER 5. ICORITZ, Editor ~ '~' ": ~ <~ ~ STEWART MITCHELL, Associate Editor JOF~N C. ROBINSON, Associate Editor K ~`~' ~~~-""" ~ „ WILLIAM R. CHANEY, Chief Photographer ~~~~ E~itora aro invited to uae information conieined herein and to request prints of any black and whlhe ~~ ~; " photographs. 't i', Address communications to: EDITOR, CALlFORtdle4 HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC V'JORKS ~b P. O. Box 1499 SACRAMENTO, CALIfORNIA .;~ ~ ,~, ~~ ~~ ~ ~.. 1 GOVERNOR 1 HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION AGENCY AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR MJferJ DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS EX OFFICIO MEMBER AND CHAIRMAN CALIFORNIA CA LIFO RNIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION HIGHWAY COMMISSION ..nr~~.i DIVISION OF CONTRACTS STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER AND RIGHTS OF WAY (LEGAL DEPT. CHIEF OF DIVISION r:. n.w i. c DEPUTY STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER DEPUTY STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER DEPUTY STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS PLANNING C. f:. Rui. 1. ~. ~rn 'ERSONNELB PUBLIC INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION FISCAL OPERATIONS BRIDGES RIGHT OF WAY PLANNING Pw w. .ss ~a. MANAGEMENT STATEx Gn_ ASST. ASST. SITE xwv. Ed x_ CxIEF xi~xi OF Vnv nGExi nS5T. 5T4TE xnv_EdG0.. L. N. i:~ll~_ 1. I:. M.. 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