HomeMy WebLinkAbout1959-002RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, ever since the construction of Florida State
Road 60 many years ago and especially during the past ten years,
many people have lost their lives or suffered serious injuries
as a result of being involved in collisions between automobiles
and the wooden bridges along said Florida State Road 60 in Indian
River County, Florida; and,
WHEREAS, many of such lives would not have been lost and
many of such injuries would not have been suffered if, instead
of there being wooden bridges, there had been adequate concrete
bridges equipped with steel or concrete railings and guards; and
WHEREAS, the traffic along said Florida State Road 60 is
constantly increasing so that further fatal and otherwise serious
accidents will occur unless the condition mentioned above is cor-
rected; and,
WHEREAS, Vero Beach -Indian River County Automobile Dealers
Association and other professional civic and business organizations
have brought this condition to the attention of this Board, now,
therefore;
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Indian River County, Florida, that this Board does request the
State Road Department of the State of Florida to make its own in-
vestigation of the facts stated above and at the earliest possible
time to undertake a program of replacing the existing wooden bridges
along said Florida State Road 60 in Indian River County, Florida,
with modern concrete bridges equipped with steel or concrete rail-
ings and guards.