Suggested Remarks For Mr. Littlefield Highway Commission Luncheon July 25, 1956 - Holiday Lodge Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed an honor to welcome to San Francisco today the distinguished members of the California State Highway Commission and the California State Division of Highways. No State in the Union has been faced with the highway and traffic problems that California has faced since the end of World War II, when a second wave of "Argonauts," many of whom had "discovered" California during military service, set out for the Golden State. In 1956 that wave of new Californians continues, and it will persist into the foreseeable future, crowding our highways and our streets, daily pouring more out-of-state cars into our already packed freeways and thoroughfares. No one understands these problems better than our guests today, who grapple with them daily and are building, mile by mile, gargantuan new facilities which can eventually solve the problem. As you know, some parts of these projected facilities have aroused considerable controversy in San Francisco. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce believes that a solution to these problems is so vital to the future of the city and the entire Bay Area that it has fought, and will continue to fight, for careful, unemotional, reasonable study to find the answer. The recommendations that we will present to you tomorrow are not, we believe, highly controversial. And again the Chamber believes it important that progress on the studies and surveys of the many projects outlined,in the City and County of San Francisco Department of Planning traffic-ways plan of 1951 be continued. As you know, better than any Californians, these (more)