The Washington times., 1922-08-23
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Of FUNDS
!. BIG BLOW.
$1,000, 900 Needed for Work
and Engineers Expect to
Get About $3.50, 900.

Practically every main artery
Of the Districts highway system
and scores of streets are in a
horrible condition" with no pros
pect of immediate Improvement,
officials of the District engineer
department declared today.
Fund Of S1,200,OOO Required.
Pennsylvania avenue southeast is
about the only road which leads nom
the city that is In good shape. This
road has Just been resurfaced. All
other outgoing roads badly need re-
pairs. :,
To fix up the main arteries would
cost about 81 200, 900, and the District
engineer department probably will
be awarded about $230,000 to do this
work. The result will be only emer-
gency repairs.
Work on portions of Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Georgia avenues
probably will be done next year. But
the other roads will be patched up In
the worst spots and let go until Con.
gress loosens up its purse strings.
There are about fifty streets In The
District which should receive mme-
diate attention, including many
which are dirt roads and never have
been improved.
The main thoroughfares are wear
ing out gradually District officials
have been unable to keep up their
original condition, due to the failure
of Congress to appropriate sufficient
monies from year to year. Here are
the main arteries which are called In
a "deplorable condition."
Connecticut avenue from Pierce
Mill road to the District line.
Only a portion of the avenue will
be resurfaced this year. The entire
Improvement needed is one ana
three-duarter miles long and would
cost about $4,000.
Nichols Avenue In Bad Shape.
Nichols avenue southeast from the
south gate Of St Elizabeth's Hos
pitaI to the District line. The need
ed improvement Is three miles ions
and would cost about $240.oOo. NO
prospects of immediate Improvement.
Georgia avenue northwest from
Military road to District line. dis
lance Of about one and one-half miles.
II would cost about $4,000 70 re.
be rebuilt this year.
Rhode Island avenue northeast
from sixteenth street TO the District
line. a distance of one and one-fourth
miles. 1t would cost about 10000
to rebuild. A portion will be rebuilt
this year.
Massachusetts avenue from Thin
tieth street to the District line, dis.
tance Of about three miles. 1t would
cost $4,000 to rebuild. No pros
poets. -.,
New Cut road, Thirty-seventh
street to Canal road. distance OF
about one-half mile. 1t will cost $4O,-
600 TO rebuild. No prospects.
Wisconsin avenue northwest from
River road to District line, distance
about three-fourths of mile. 1t
will cost 100000 to rebuild. No pros
poets.
North Capitol street from V street
to Michigan avenue, a distance or
one.half mile 1t will cost $4,000 to
rebuild. No prospects.
Muddy Puddles. T..
Here are dirt streets which are
regular mud puddles in rainy weather
and which need paving.
Buchanan street northwest. Geor'
ria avenue to Eighth street; Critten.
den street northwest, Georgia ave-
nue. to Eighth street: Upshur street
northwest, Fourth street to ROCK
Creek Church road; Thirteenth street
northwest, Spring road to Shepherd
street: jefferson street northwest,
Georgia avenue to Thirteenth street.
InRraham street northwest. Georgia
avenue to Thirteenth street; Ken
nedy street northwest, Georgia ave-
nue. TO Fifth street: Spring place
northwest, Fourteenth to Sixteenth
street; Seventh street northwest
Varnum to Webster street; Eighth
street northwest, Buchanan to Crit
tenden street: Ninth street north.
west, Buchanan to Crittenden street,
and Thirteenth street northwest, Gal.
alton to jefferson street.
The latter-named streets may be
paved next year.
The District engineer department
estimates that it Is $4,000, 900 behind
In its highway program.
The budget bureau will only allow
about $4,000 for new streets this
year. For repair of streets about
$500 900 will be allowed.