Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-22
CITY TO REPAVE
BUSINESS STREETS
81 900, 900 to Be Spent on Re-
pairing Thoroughfares--Ap-
preparation Inadequate

Plans for the rcpaving Of main traffic
and business streets have been an
nounccd by Director Winston tn view
of the fact that only $t.000,00 is
available for street paving. Mr.. Win
ston said, he believed it would be better
toned rather than spend the money on
streets in isolated sections of the city.
Not more than eleven miles could be
done, he said, with the money now
available. The money will be spent on
the improvement of the following streets
in the sections named
GIRARD AVENUE. from Forty. second street
1iSs66@Nsffr s69bSSNstffr avSnnS NTh@, LOO Feet
ta the n nf9resoiIng If vii provide the shortsss OF est
Lincoln Highway and at the 'I same I'm I time e &C, @
commodate business interest on Lansdowne
WOODLAND AVENUE. from slxty-second
street street to City Line, Cobbs Creek.
brick paving rtSVe ana provide @ % an entrance to
the city from Chester pike over modern
THIRTY-FoURTH STREET Lancaster ave-
nut to Market street. 44O feet.
-, This is to complete the smooth paving on
Thirty. fourth street from Fairmount Park
to Woodland avenue.
NoKRIs STREE s1dS IS Bread to Twcnty-seeond
stree street; 3'oo teet.
travel.
sg5SouEHtANNA AVENUE FROM Broad to
To replace old-style granite block paving
ans and to pr9yido- r de modern p%ayement aye 5 for
Ridge avenue, 1900 linear feet,
RIDGE AVENUE. from Vine street to Broad
FIFTH STREET. from Market to Spring
Garden street. $3.50 linear feet.
The paving of the three streets mentioned
be OF immea surabie value to the traffic
6gSnsss that pa of the city nd
street. 1900 linear feet.
kENSsINGToN AyENUE; from York street
KENSINGTON. AVENUE. from Boudinot
street to Allegheny avenue. 37oo linear
The foregoing work will provide good paw
ms from Allegheny avenue to the Pennsyl-
@nia freight wards at Palmer and Front
doing business along this main thoroughfare
traffic that originates in this vicinity.
FRANKFORT AVENUE. from Harrison to
Thi Church street 1850 linear feet
ford and is a link in the, connection of the
the the ceater Git"'Sd' Of the ce cty. '' ''"1 WIN
GERMANTOWN AVENUE, from Glenwocd
avenue to TioEa street. $500 linear feet,
This will complete the modern granite
paving in Germantown avenue between Broad
street Erie avenue and Montgomery avenue
and IS one more step In the repaving of this
main traffic and business street. from Girard
avenue to the City Line.
| GERMANTOWN AVENUE. from Chefter
avenue to IIaines street, 1900 linear feet
An extension of the new paving north ci
Chelten avenue.
| EMERALD STREET. Ontario to Atlantic
street. 1850 linear feet.
Replacing worn-out dangerous bricl
ERIE AVENUE, from Sixteenth to Nine
| tenth street. 1850 linear feet.
| Eliminating the worn.out and dangerous
stretch OF paving west of Broad street.
COLUMBIA AVENUE. Eighteen to Twenty
third street; 200 linGar feet.
| Extending the wood-block paving. now laiC
as far west as Eighteenth street.
PASSYUNK AVENUE, South to Broac
street. 1910 linear feet.
The removal of the street railway track,
and the repaving Of that street with i'm
proved asphalt paving will make It one o
| the main traffic routes in South Philadelphia
providing diagonal street. well paved, I,
! the Passyung avenue bridge over the SchuyI
! Kill river.
GRAys FERRY AVENUE. South street t
The repaving Of that avenue with groute
granite block on a concrete base will pre-
vide a desirable main line Of traffic to Forty
iieve traffic conditions at other, congeste
points. and In connection with the rebuild
Ing of the Forty-ninth street bridge. an
some additional paying ~, in West West, p Philadel ln,
for truck travel to the southern part o
West Philade'nhia.