. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. vious years bridge projects were initiated almost entirely bythe district engineers as the bridge engineer had no data on which toformulate a program. With the aid of data secured from this investi-gation, the bridge engineer has been able, after conferring with thedistrict engineers, to recommend to the state highway engineer a logicalbridge program for the whole state. Budgets for bridge work and road work can not be made independentof one another. Structures necessitated b


. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. vious years bridge projects were initiated almost entirely bythe district engineers as the bridge engineer had no data on which toformulate a program. With the aid of data secured from this investi-gation, the bridge engineer has been able, after conferring with thedistrict engineers, to recommend to the state highway engineer a logicalbridge program for the whole state. Budgets for bridge work and road work can not be made independentof one another. Structures necessitated by highway construction havetheir inception, naturally, in the plans of the road engineers. Butwith the information obtained from this investigation, the bridge engi-neer is in a much better position to give reliable advice to the districtengineers relative to which structures are in immediate need of replace-ment, which ones need major repairs, and the probable future life ofbridges in fair present condition. As pointed out in the progress reportreferred to above, while at first glance. -^^X) may appear rather. A;, 64 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS


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