Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-14 | Page 7 | Street Car Company to Pave All Washington Ave. Intersections Double Track and Lay New Steel

I STREET CAR COMPANY TO PAVE ALL :x WASHINGTON AYE. INTERSECTIONS, ' DOUBLE TRACK AND LAY NEW STEEL I Agreement was reached at a meeting meet-ing of the Ogdcn City commissioners i and the state road commission in Salt Lako yesterday that the Ogdon Street Railway company would bo required to pavo all tho intersections between its tracks on North Washington avenue. ave-nue. . It was also agreed that certain improvements will be made by the company along tho tracks on both North and South "Washington avenue. The road is to be double-tracked and now steel and ties arc to be laid at a cost of' $160,000. Before the proposed improvements arc begun the property owners of both localities will be called into conouiia-tlon conouiia-tlon with the city commissioners hero to determine whether or not the planned Improvements will be accept able to them, according to Mayor Frank Francis. The agreement will call for the placing of curbs along tho tracks and the paving of Intersection of tho avenue. Important steps were takon at mo meeting to hnsten tho construction, as a federal aid projoct, of the road up Ogdcn canyon from the city limits to Ogden valley, Ogdcn was represented before tho commission by Mayor Francis, Commissioner Com-missioner Flygare and Engineer Joseph Jo-seph M. Tracy. The road commission approved of their recommondatlon that the street car company need not pavo the space between the car traoks, but instead must erect a six-inch curb two feet from the track and pave bo-tween bo-tween tho rails nl all intersections, to a width as wide as tho outer edges of the sidewalks on cross streets. Most of tho blocks in tho section, as outlined, out-lined, have cross strootG through' tho center, so that tho arrangomont will afford,, it is believed, a sufficient number num-ber of places whero vehicles may cross from the east to the west sido of "Washington avenuo, or vice versa. As outlined at the meeting, tho federal fed-eral aid project will carry the paving of Ogden canyon to near Iluntsvllic, 7.371 miles from the Ogden city limits- Total estimated cost Is $268,-450.05. $268,-450.05. or $36,459.76 per mile, tho federal government paying 'one-half of the cost and tho state and county dividing the remainder. Tho pavement to be used Is the bltulithio concrete top on the present rock base, with the necessary black base added. The hard-surfaced portion of the canyon road will be eighteen foet wide, and tho roadway, counting the gravel shoulders, twenty-six foet wide, wherever the conditions In the canyon will permit. The maximum grade is to be 6 per cent. The state has a "hot plant" available for this work, and it is desired to get trained help from tho Barber Asphalt company for laying the roadway. Owing to the manner In which this complicates the foderal aid arrangements, arrange-ments, the matter was referred to V. M, Frlckstad, senior highway engineer engi-neer of the bureau of public roads in Ogden, and It. M. Miller, district engineer en-gineer for the state in Ogden, to confer con-fer on the matter with B. J. Finch, district engineer, and Mr. Frickstad's 1 chief in this city. Hope was expressed that advertisements for bids for tho work might be running In tho newspapers news-papers in the near future.