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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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etween the roads at a relatively smallcapital expenditure. Long and costly approaches are eliminated and thereis no doubt that the first cost will be relatively smaller than for a similarundertaking in other communities of equal importance in the United States. 6. Centralization and consolidation would be particularly desirablefrom the point of view of unified operation of the railroads, whether underprivate or government ownership and control. The principal arguments against the establishment of a union stationare: L Los Angeles is not a through station. Practically all trains enteringthe city terminate there, and it is there that the majority of the passengersreach their destination. Only approximately LS per cent of the total num-ber of passengers transfer from one station to another. 2. The first cost of any adequate union passenger terminal will be highand the saving in operating expenses will not alone warrant the resultingincrease in fixed charges. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 55
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MAIN STREET, LOOKING NORTH FROM THE PLAZA, LOS ANGELESAll buildings in the immediate foreground lie within the proposed station zone. A number of possible sites were studied and detailed plans and estimates weremade for three: The Plaza site, the Santa Fe site and the Southern Pacific site.The report recommends that the Commission order the establishment of theunion passenger station at the Plaza site substantially in accordance with theplan as developed. FREIGHT The question of economical handling of freight, although of even greater im-portance to the City than the question of passengers, is not at present in anunsatisfactory condition, and no radical changes are proposed. The most im-portant of the recommendations made in this connection is the one urging theestablishment of a union less than carload freight station at the Santa Fe avenuesite from First to Seventh street, the present Santa Fe freight station to becomea part of the union freight station. The establishment of team ya

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