BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: March 22, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 102 (Coto) - As Introduced: January 6, 2010
SUBJECT : State Routes 101, 280 and 680
SUMMARY : Designates a freeway interchange in the City of San
Jose as the Joe Colla Memorial Interchange. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Recognizes Joe Colla as a California leader whose actions
ensured the completion of the interchange for State Routes
(SR) 680, 280 and 101.
2)Recounts the life and career of Mr. Colla, a former San Jose
City Council member.
3)Designates the interchange of SR 680, 280, and 101 as the Joe
Colla Interchange.
4)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to
determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the
signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the
special designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation
and maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Joseph Anthony Colla actively served the San Jose
community during the 1970s as a pharmacist, bike racer, bike
race promoter, and San Jose City Council Member.
Councilman Colla became a true urban legend when he arranged for
a helicopter to lift a Chevy on top of an unfinished and
abandoned interchange that had for four years fallen victim to
the state's budget woes and a gasoline shortage. As a direct
result of Councilman Colla's exploits, including posing the
question, "Where do I drive from here?" from atop the unfinished
interchange, and identifying the monolith as "A Monument to
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Nowhere," the City of San Jose received the necessary funding
and the interchange project was completed.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese (sponsor)
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093