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CHULA VISTA CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF June 20, 1972
Item Title: Supporting through bus service between Tijuana, Mexico
and San Diego, California
Initiated by: City Council
Attached is a copy of Resolution [ ] Ordinance [ ] Agreement [ ] Plat [ ]
Background:
At the meeting of June 13, 1972, the City Council
heard a presentation by Mr. Eric Rath, Border
Cities Conference, regarding a through bus service
between Tijuana, Mexico to San Diego.
On May 2, 1972, the County Board of Supervisors
expressed its support of the concept of this
service, with a request to the United States
Interstate Commerce Commission to grant a permit to
Tres Estrellas de Oro y' Companias Associadas,
S.A. de C. V. for this service.
The motion by Council was that a resolution be
brought back to the next meeting indicating the
Council's support of the concept of the bus service
to be provided by a bus company from either side
of the border.
See EXHIBITS [ ] No.
Financial
Statement: N.A.
Commission -Board
Recommendation: This is supported by the Chamber of Commerce.
Department Head
Recommendation: N.A.
City Manager
Recommendation:
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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1972 /
No. 55 '
OIM6TION of Supervisor Boney, seconded by Supervisor Craven, the
following resolution is adopted:
WHEREAS, a Mexican bus company has indicated an interest in establish-
ing a direct, through bus service between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego,
California; and
WHEREAS, such through bus service exists in every other major Mexican -
United States border area; and
WHEREAS, the San Ysidro- Tijuana crossing is the world's busiest border
crossing with over 24 million people crossing both ways; and
WHEREAS, establishment of such through bus service would greatly assist
in the alleviation of the congestion at the San Ysidro- Tijuana crossiiig and
would expedite transportation of visitors between Mexico and the United
States, promoting more fully the friendly relations between the two nations;
NOW THEREFORE
IT IS RESOLVED AND ORDERED that the Board of Supervisors of the County
of San Diego does hereby express its support of the concept of through bus
service between Tijuana, Mexico to San Diego, California; requests the
United States Interstate Commerce Commission to grant a permit to Tres
Estrellas de Oro y' Companias Associadas, S.A. de C.V. for this much - needed
bus service, but does urge Interstate Commerce Commission officials to
confer with the governments of the local cities most affected for route and
bus stop suggestions; and directs that this expression of support for
through bus service be communicated to the concerned parties.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of
San Diego, State of California, this 2nd day of May, 1972, by the following
vote:
AYES: Supervisors Walsh,
NOES: Supervisors None
ABSENT: Supervisors None
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ss.
County of San Diego )
Boney, Scheidle, Bear and Craven
I, PORTER D. CREMANS, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Diego,
State of California, hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy with the
original resolution passed and adopted by said Board, at a regular
meeting thereof, at the time and by the vote therein stated, which original resolution
is now on file in my office; that the same contains a full, true and correct transcript
therefrom and of the whole thereof.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Board of Supervisors, this 2nd day
of May, 1972.
PORTER D. CREMANS
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
(SEAL) $y Lenelle Doyle
Deputy
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