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Excerpt from Good Roads: January-June, 1912 Broadway - The railroad shall cross over the' street with a clearance of not more than fourteen feet' from the surface of the street to the lowest member of the bridge and shall bridge the entire width of the street, leaving an unobstructed roadway. The grade of the street shall be depressed not more than ten and one-quarter feet at the point of crossing. The street shall ascend to the south at a grade of not over three per cent. And to the north at a grade of not over three and three-tenths per cent. Until the grade coincides with the existing grade of the street. The roadway beneath the railroad shall at all times be adequately lighted at the expense of the Railroad Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.