Evening star., 1924-02-02
WILL URGE FUNDS
FOR STREET WORK
Board of Trade Members to
Appear Before House Ap-
preparations Committee.

ton Board of Trade will appear al
hearings before the House and Senate
appropriations committee and urge
funds for street Improvement, it was
decided at meeting Of the full COM
mittee in The Star building late yes
terday.
George c. Shinn. chairman OF the
committee. was authorized to appoint
special subcommittee to present at
the hearings the results or the In
vestigations Of a number OF sub
committees into the street situation
here showing that there are many
urgent paving needs. not included In
the present estimates.
The list Of improvements which the
committee will urge follows:
Subcommittees of the committee on
streets and avenues OF the Washing
ton Board of Trade. after a thorough
examination throughout the city.
have reported to the full committee
that the following streets which were
not included in the estimates should
be included in appropriations for I'M
provements:
Northwest.
Improvement of roadway between
Park place and 1st street northwest
(Webster street.
New York avenue from Florida
avenue to 9Th street and from lith
to 18th street. (The paving In be
tween the street car tracks Is badly
in need OF repair.)
New York avenue between 18th ana
21st streets, resurfaced.
Spring road northwest from Rock
Creek Church road to 18th street, I'M
proved.
Thirteenth. street northwest from
Shepherd street to Crtttenden street,
improved
buchanan street northwest from
18th street to 14th street, improved.
New Hampshire avenue from Grant
circle to the District of Columbia line
(extension).
North Capitol street from Florida
avenue to Michigan avenue, resurfac-
ing.
Oregon avenue west OF New HanIp-
shire avenue, need OF repair.
Sixteenth street from Florida ave-
nue. to Alaska avenue. resurfacing.
Central avenue to New Hampshire
avenue and Grant circle. resurfactng.
NJ street from 28th street to 36th
street. extensive repairs
X street from Wisconsin avenue to
36th street improved.
Wisconsin avenue from intersection
of 35th street northward to Calvert
street, repaving between car tracks
needs repairing.
Tunlaw road. from Arizona avenue
Calvert street, opened up and paved
from Tunlaw road to Wisconsin avenue.
Avon place. several bad sections In
need of repair.
NJ street from Pennsylvania avenue
west to Canal road. in urgent need of
repair
Wisconsin avenue near Dumbarton
avenue. badly in need Of repair:
Foxhall road. in urgent need OF re-
Nahroc,,, ovanue 70 Western avenue
Thirty-seventh street. patching in
numerous places.
Canal road. patching in numerous
places.
Reservoir road. patching in numer-
Gus places.
New Cut road. repairing; .-
New Mexico avenue. kltngle road.
Ridge road unpaved and in very bad
The side streets off New Mexico
avenue are unpayed and almost I'M
Small part of Ridge road paved but
full of holes.
25th street to reservoir. and T street
to 39th street, embracing new sub
division known as Burletgh (Thcse
streets are unpaved and in very poor
condition.)
All streets running Off Conduit road
west to District line are unpaved.
Kennedy street to New Hampshire
avenue, narrow, rutted. dirt road. quite
rough.
Lights and general Improvement of
viaduct on II street.
Improvement Of 10th street, from
Benning road to Gales street.
Opening 18th street from Gales street
to East Capitol street.
Widening sidewalk from 18th and
~ s<~ IN
Finishing terrace on Tennessee ave
nue. 14th street and E street, around
Kingman School.
Opening c, D. E and + streets, from
! 18th to proposed 18th street: rect, 49, ,,,
paratively every street in northeast sec
ton, particularly on Z and streets
from 18th to 18th streets.
18th street, East Capitol to streets
A street, 18th to nth streets.
larly on north side of railway tracks
on H street northeast between 18th
and 18th streets.
From the standpoint Of safety the
telephone poles where at all close to
the roadway along Benntng road and
at Minnesota avenue and Gault place
should be striped.
The entire roadway from Chesa-
peake Junction to the eastern ap-
proach over the Benning viaduct
and the several turns along the route
should be shouldered out so as to
make passing of traffic safer.
The approach from the east to the
Benning vtaduct calls for immedfat te
betterment, as many accidents are
happening there with great fire.
Quency.
70 the Maryland state line should be
widened and covered with a good
macadam surface.
EXTENSION Of East Capitol street from
its junction with Southern avenue and
6Ist street, at the northern line Of
Capitol Heights. Md. westward. with
bridge Of ample capacity over the
eastern High School to pupils from the
section served by that route, and to
create a much needed artery OF travel
in that direction.
18th street-East Capitol to Potomac
18th stree.-East Capitol to Massa-
chusetts avenue.
A street-15th to 18th.
q street-15th to 18th.
G street-15th to 18th.
n street-15th to 18th.
Kentucky avenue-South Carolina
avenue to e street.
q street-14th to 15tn streets.
massachusetts, avenue-16th to 18th
streets.
road. Anacostia, to Pennsylvania ave-
hu nth street from Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to Anacostia bridge.
Southwest:
to the wharf.