Minutes 10/12/1954 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

3 TUESDAY OCTOBER 12, 1954 --- No action was taken by Council, other than to continue to next regular meeting's agenia, on a proposed amendment to the City's Amusement Admission Tax Ordinance, as presented by Attorney John Hartley. Council, also, continued until its next regular meeting consideration of a request from the Norfolk and Western RailwayCompan;y for permission to discontinue watchman service on Sundays at the Broad Street railroad crossing. In receiving the 1953-54 annual report of the City's Recreation Department, Council complimented Recreation Director Dlvid D. Russell upon tthe fine report of, as well as the splendid work being done by, Mr. Russell and the Recreation Department. ~- i~ ~ Pursuant to the following recommendation of Mr. Irving R. McGhee, Traffic and Planning Engineer, as endorsed by City Marager Mathewson, Council adopted the following ordinance amending its Traffic and Safety Code to provide, among other things, for speed limits on Memorial Boulevard: To: :ur. Kent Mathewson, City Manager Subject: Speed Limits on Memorial Boulevard After considerable observation of traffic flow and speeds on the newly named Memorial Boulevard from the intersection of Church and Fayette Streets to the intersection of starling Avenue and Memorial Boulevard, it is ~ recommendation that certain changes be made in our Traf'fic and Safety Code which are as follows: Chapter I, Section 1, paragraph 25 be changed in the appropriate places to substitute the words Memorial Boulevard in place of the words Bridge Street. That Chapter I of Section 4 B, paragraph 2 be amended to read as follows: Twenty miles per hour in business districts as defined herein, except when a street passing through a business district is a divided highway consisting of four or more lanes a speed of thirty miles per hour may be allowed. It is my further recommendation that we erect 30 mile an hour signs on Memorial Boulevard from its entersection with Bridge Street south to the South Corporate Limits in appropriate locations and 40 miles per hour signs on Memorial Boulevard from its intersection with Bridge Street, north to the North Corporate Limits.