The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
Street
ROUTE is SELECTED
Street Committee, After Two Years
OF Study, Recommends
Rose Plan.
STRAIGHT WAY TO MAYO BRIDGE
VIII Also Greatly Relieve Congestion
of Traffic In Wholesale Section and
Open Way to Adequate Street Gar
"a Service to South Richmond.

. After It had been engaged during two
years In wrestling with the problem,
and at .the end OF the third consecu-
Committee last night decided by an
unrecorded vote in favor OF the Four
teenth Street route as tho approach to
Mnyo's Bridge. Just previously to the
passage Of this resolution the commit
tee voted upon compromise plan Of
fered by Alderman Powers, which pro-
ylded for the widening of both Four
teenth and Fifteenth Streets as mp
tho congestion OF travel and traffic in
that district and It WAS defeated by
a recorded vote OF five to four.
~ rhe fight for the onc-street route
Tas led BY Aldermen Fuller and Gunst
and Councilman Carter C.. Jones. and
the resolution finally adopted was pre-
'sented by Mr. Puller, who, in the course
OF his argument. declared that the city
would be unableato sustain the financial
burden incident to the widening OF both
streets. saying that it had only about
100000 to care for all improvements.
and that il would take this sum. at
least. to widen both streets.
THINKS FOURTEENTH
Ii SHOULD COME FIRST
afr. Gunst who at the meeting
-ThuSsday af.crnaon offered the COM
promise plan of opening both streets.
, Insisted last night on the one-street
route unless it should be specifically
provided IN the compromise that Four
/ teenth Street should be wldened FIRST
Mr.. Powers agreed to amend his reso-
luton In this respect. but Chairman
Pollock suggested that two resolutions
should be presented. and that they
should be acted upon separately. DIR.
Fuller then presented his motion, and
IL was adopted upon an unrecorded
vote
i city Engineer Boiling explained at
spine length the need. as he saw It,.
OF widening both streets. saying that
though he favored Fourteenth Street as
the approach to tho bridge, traffic was
SO congested on Fifteenth and Cary
IL Streets that Fifteenth Street should
also be widened. and he thought 1t
ndyisabio to proceed with both propo-
sttIons Mt once. He said that business
houses east OF Fourteenth Street would
be- in need OF Fifteenth Street as an
exit, and that the latter street would
become part of a natural highway into
Shockoe Valley after the tunnel from
8Broad to Marshall Street had been COM
= pIetsd. In reply to q question. Mt.
Boiling said that II was absolutely es >
scntial that both. streets be widened; !;
~ have made thorough investiga!
ton OF the traffic needs In this district,
he said, land I am absolutely satisfied
In my mind that we should proceed
To the widening OF both. streets We
aaye had this matter before US for
TWO years. and am tired of II"
TIME HAS COME FOR
III DEFINITE ACTION
81 am tired Of 1t. too" shouted Mr..
Gunst. I'VE have had nothing but
tlans, plans. always plans, and think
tho time has come when ne should take
tome definite action.S We have had
this question under. consideration for
TWO years. innd shall not stulttfy' my
e. ielf, by further delay" Councilman
Homes likewise insisted on definite ac-
lion, and insisted that Fourteenth
Street was the more feasible approach
% the bridge OF the two. He thought
Nat tho widening OF Fifteenth Street
:opldI be left to future ,eonsideration.
md sstd that the question: was not one
,fl opefiing both streets. but of con-
Itruc{iri3, AN approach to the bridge
- GndaF the resolution adopted last
iightsfhe City Engineer IS INSTRUCTED
dl report on plans In, line with the
10 postttpn OF Z. S. Rose and asso
iat es, who have suhInitted' a propo-
ftlon, Whereby they Will widen Four
eSnt HaStreet to n width OF sixty feet
tia Total cost OF s265,000, or let the
ny d0lRthe work provided the pro-
dot eray are paid per- cent for their
Ian. {: Sir. Rose and his associates
ave obtained options on oil the build
ngs on the east side OK Fourteenth
treet which IL Will be necessary to
ut away to make the street of the re-
uired width.
WHAT IS PROPOSED IN
ROSE-LAMBERT PLANS
In addition to the cost Of real es-
Ate necessary to widen Fourteenth
treetSto q width of sixty feet, except
tits mouth. which shall be eighty one
act wide. the plans and estimates Of
n. Roso and. his associates also pro-
ide for real estate necessary to open
new street torty-four feet wide from
lroI IN md on n
urther. they provide. for making all
ecessary alterations in the buildings
Elected and for the tearing down OF
Ich buildings as Will have to be re-
owed altosethe for repaving Four
zenith Street and the new street. In
uding sidewalks and curbing the hll2
ig in of Easements under portions .of
o. le buildings removed, for a bridge ov-
2'!the dock. sixty feet wide and TWEEN
,isfeet span, and for n retaining wall
- 10 feet long, running north from the
,rth end of Mnyo's Bridge on the west
de Of Fourteenth Street and also
o necessary grading OF the widened
,rtions of Fourteenth Street and the
Nv street
tTY MUST ACQUIRE
CERTAIN BUILDINGS
It Is provided. however. that the city
ust acquire, by condemnation pro-
edings or otherwise, the building at
OF East Main Street. the set valua-
in of which Is $4,000; 141s and 1921
lst Main Street. $4,000. and a build
& and forty-elght feet In Exchange
ley, $4,000 These sums are includ-
FIN the total price Of S265.0o0 to be
Id by, the city.
1t is further provided that IL these
ans are used by the city In construct
the approach to the bridge, then
s, Rose and his associates are to be
Id s per cent of the cost of the work.
City Engineer Boiling Is instructed
report on plans along the lines of
Rose proposition and to report back
sthe committee. No work is to be
he. however, until the matter is laid
fore the Finance Committee. iet-
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