Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-21
IMPROVED Lighting
PLAN TO Be Argued
Subcommittee to Hear Idea
to Coordinate System
With Traffic Signals.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

The question Of developing an i'm
proved system OF street lighting for
the National Capital, co-ordinated IN
the interests of economy and eff
cheney with tho system Of electric
traffic signals, will bo thoroughly
thrashed out at tho hearing tomor-
row before the subcommittee of the
House appropriations committee on
the District budget. District officials
will be asked to Justify and to explain
the appropriations asked for the fire,
health and electrical departments.
the courts and Fairgrounds.
+ Tho director of traffic asked the
budget bureau for $125.000 for pur.
chase. Installation and operation of
traffic Light signals and $4,000 for
operating the Office, and the budget
bureau cut this to 100000. While
the District appropriation bill under
consideration by the subcommittee
in its detailed provisions carries
325 900 for new traffic signals, only
between $4,000 and $4,000 can be
used for that work.
II the House leadership had allowed
tomorrow to be used as District day
for the consideration of District bills,
a measure proposing four amend
ments to the traffic act would have
come up. One of the important pro.
visions Of that bill, rushed out of
was designed to provide a fund of
about $325, 900 to $3.50, 900 for com
pleting the system Of electric traffic
signals by issuing new drivers
licenses Tor three-year period at a
cost Of 81 per year.
Need License Funds.
Representative Blanton. Democrat.
Of Texas, who was trying to force
through a comprehensive trafHc bill,
had included as part of his measure
q list Of streets on which these electric
trafic signals would be placed. He
told the District committee that this
represented the program of the Traf-
f1c Director and the District Commits
sioners, and that the system OF elec'
trio traffic signals could be com.
pleted" If the funds from the sale of
drivers licenses were authorized to
be used for that purpose.
The streets listed in the Blanton
bill are as follows:
On Massachusetts avenue, from New
Jersey avenue to Twenty-second
street: on Sixteenth street. from H
street to Newton street; around La
fayette Square: on Pennsylvania ave-
nue., from the Peace Monument to
Twenty eighth street northwest: on
M street northwest, from Twenty
ninth to Thirty-fourth street; on Rhode
Island avenue, from Connecticut ave
nue. to First street northwest; on Con
necticut avenue, from Eighteenth
street to Cathedral avenue; on street
northwest, from Sixth to Fifteenth
street; on g street northwest, from
sixth to Fifteenth street; on Sixth
street northwest, from Pennsylvania
avenue to Rhode Island avenue; on
Thirteenth street northwest. from
Pennsylvania avenue to Florida ave
nue.; on Eighteenth street northwest
from Pennsylvania avenue to Florida
avenue; on Twenty-second street. from
Pennsylvania avenue to Massachusetts
avenue; on Florida avenue northwest
from Massachusetts, avenue to Connec
ticut avenue; and on Maryland ave
nue, from First street northeast to its
intersection with Bladensburg road.
The House District committee, on
motion Of Representative Mcleod, Re
publican, Michigan. added to this list
New Jersey avenue, from the Capitol
to u street.