North River Bridge Co. Bridge Across Hudson River: Hearings Before the Bridge Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 9201, a Bill to Provide for the Creation of a Commission to Examine and to Report the Clear Height Above Water of the Bridge Authorized to be Constructed Over the Hudson River from Fifty-seventh Street, New York, to New Jersey. May 5 and 11, 1934U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 43 pages |
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Page 1 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established a commission to be known as the United States LexingtonConcord Sesquicentennial Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission...
Page 1 - And a board of three engineers is hereby constituted to make the survey and examination necessary for such ascertainment ; said board to be selected and appointed by the President of the United States, one from the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, one from the Engineers of the Navy, and one from civil life; and the compensation of the members of said board shall be fixed by the President, not to exceed...
Page 2 - ... We will rest our case. Mr. CUMMINGS. You have nothing further you wish to file? Mr. BUNKER. No. Mr. Oxnard just wanted to make a brief statement, but he says now that he will not. Mr. CUMMINGS. Very well. We will now hear Mr. Kenney. STATEMENT OF HON. EDWARD A. KENNEY, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY Mr. KENNEY. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: I am deeply interested in this bill chiefly because the people of my district are affected by it. and have requested...
Page 4 - An act to authorize the New York and New Jersey Bridge Companies io construct and maintain a bridge across the Hudson River between New York City and the State of New Jersey.
Page 21 - I represent the Port of New York Authority, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York', NY...
Page 4 - War may, upon receiving such plans and map and other information, order a hearing before a board of engineers appointed by him for taking testimony of persons, interested in railroads and navigation, relative to the clear height of the superstructure above ordinary high water ; such clear height shall not be less than that named in section...
Page 41 - November 8, 1933. The PRESIDENT NORTH RIVER BRIDGE Co., Jersey City, NJ. MY DEAR SIR : In reference to your application for a permit to build a bridge over the North River at Fifty-seventh Street, New York City, and the recent Joint hearing of your representatives and those of the Port Authority of New York, I wish to inform you promptly of my decision in the matter of the permit. I find that the bridge as you propose will interfere with the navigation in the North River.
Page 42 - S. 1645 proposes to establish a commission to be known as "the Hudson River Bridge Commission ", to be composed of five members to be appointed by the President, 1 from the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, 1 from the United States Navy, 1 from the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1 from the Bureau of Navigation, Department of Commerce, and 1 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to examine the subject of clear height above the water of the superstructure of the bridge which the...
Page 34 - ... with the public facilities constructed by the two States. 2. Its 1890 charter is now a legislative anachronism in view of subsequent actions of Congress and of the States of New York and New Jersey in setting up modern machinery for providing interstate bridges and tunnels as rapidly as needed. 3. It is in conflict with the carefully considered plans of the two States for development of the port of New York district, both with respect to freight and highway traffic. 4. It was carefully considered...
Page 35 - ... some comfortable distance in height. But everyone has not heard the noise plus vibration of 200 to 500 aircraft a day. That remains the lot of those who have the misfortune to live close to airports and on the extensions of the runways. It remains a simple inescapable fact, that the State of New York, the city of New York, the Port of New York Authority, the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Civil Aeronautics Board, have never taken noise measurements in the community. At least they have...