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Resolution No. 57 - continued
BE -IT RESOLVED by the said Council of the City of St. Louis Park, Hennepin
County, Minnesota, that the City Manager and Mayor be and are hereby authorized
and directed to execute a license agreement between the City of St. Louis Park
and the Minneapolis i St. Louis Railway Company substantially in the form of the
draft exhibited at this meeting, covering the right of the City to construct, re-
construct, maintain, repair and use, at its own sole cost and expense, a 12 inch
water pipe line within a 36 -inch reinforced concrete pipe casing, across the
right of way and under the main tracks of the Railway, at Station 447 plus 73,
St. Louis Park, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Resolution No. 58
Adopted April 25. 1955
On motion of Councilman Jorvig, seconded by Councilman Middleton, the follow-
ing resolution having been read by the -Secretary, was adopted by unanimous vote
of all Members of the Council present:
RESOLUTION APPROVING PROPOSED BUS ROUTES
WHEREAS it is necessary in order to provide adequate public transportation
within St. Louis Park and into Minneapolis with transfer privileges for residents
of the westerly Section of the City that the Minneapolis Street Railway Company
extend its bus lines along the routes hereinafter proposed, and it is essential
that the residents of the areas to be served by these proposed routes be given
the proposed service, and
WHEREAS the routes hereinafter proposed appear to the Council to be feasible
and desirable and if properly scheduled, not detrimental to existing service;
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of St. Louis Park that the
following proposed bus service extension of existing bus route of Minneapolis
Street Railway Company be hereby approved, subject to the continuing right of
the City Council to prescribe police regulations in connection with use thereof:
Extension of route, now terminating at Minnetonka Boulevard
at Idaho Avenue westerly on Minnetonka Coulevard to Louisiana
Avenue; thence north on Louisiana Avenue to Cedar Lake Road;
thence westerly on Cedar Lake Road ,to Boone Avenue; thence
north on Boone Avenue to West 25th Street; thence easterly on
25th Street to return on Cedar Lake Road. Also on Minnetonka
Boulevard from Louisiana Avenue -to Texas Avenue; thence south
on Texas Avenue to West 37th Street; thence East on West 37th
Street to State Highway No. 7; thence westerly on State Highway
No. 7 to return to Texas Avenue. Also from Lake Street at
Wooddale AvenueiSoutherly on Wooddale Avenue to West 36th Street; thence
west on West 36th Street to Alabama Avenue; thence south on
Alabama Avenue to Ezcelsior Boulevard; thence east on Excelsior
Boulevard to Brookside Avenue; thence north on Brookside Avenue
to return to Alabama Avenue (this latter route to replace the
now existing service on Alabama Avenue from the Excelsior line of
Twin City Motor Bus Company).
BE IT -FURTHER RESOLVED that the City hereby approves application of the
Minneapolis Street Railway Company to the Railroad,and Warehouse Commission of
the State of Minnesota for certificate authorizing such proposed extensions,
and upon receiving such certificate the said Company shall be hereby author-
ized to use said public streets of the City for such bus service on the sched-
ules approved by the Commission from time to time, ,subject to the reserved
right of Police regulation as heretofore observed, and on condition that trans-
fer privileges be given on the said lines within St. Louis Park.