- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
This improvement extended from Mission Street east to county line near Bayshore Boulevard, involving excavation and fill for sub base for roadway, sewer construction including catch basins, manholes, culverts, and appurtenances, removal of tracks, ties, poles, conduits and fixtures, moving water mains, fire hydrants etc., replacing all publicly owned utilities. This project developed another connection link in the State Highway System providing an entrance to Bay Shore Highway and the Livestock Pavilion from the outer Mission District.–Healy, p. 48.
Source notes
Healy, Clyde E. San Francisco Improved: Report of Clyde E. Healy, Assistant City Engineer - City of San Francisco and Coordinator of W.P.A. Projects, Period October 10, 1935 to August 31, 1939. San Francisco : [s.n.]., 1939. United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.) Report on Progress of the Works Program in San Francisco. January, 1938. Works Progress Administration / William Mooser, Jr., branch manager. [San Francisco? 1938]Contribute to this Site
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