Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-14
STREET INSPECTION
STARTS TOMORROW
House Subcommittee to
Study Plans to Spend $780,
600 in Spring.

| Inspection OF streets and roadways
| in the District of Columbia, on which
| emergency improvements during the
| Spring months of the present year are
| urged by the District Commissioners
/ with the approval of the budget di-
| rector. will be made starting tomor-
| row afternoon by the subcommittee
| on District appropriations of the
| House appropriations committee
| a total Of $3.50, 900 is asked for this
| work in order that the engineer of
| highways may keep his organization
| at work and expedite the improve
ment during the pleasant Spring
| weather and not he forced 10 wait UNI
| I'll the appropriations for the fiscal
year 1927 become available on July l.
Representative Funk Of Illinois
chairman OF the subcommittee. an
nounced today that he believed it is
| good business judgment to authorize
! necessary work Of this kind to he
| done as promptly as possible during
! the Spring months. and Chairman
Madden of the House appropriations
, committee said that whatever recon-
| mendations Mr.. F'unk's subcommittee
| make will be approved by the fun
! committee on appropriations.
| hS llbIlS dshtf dIP. l. or
paving roadWaNs under the permit
| system. 10000: for general street
| impro vements. Sl50.n0O. and for i'm
| provements under the gasoline tax.
100000, which includes the widen
| ing of Connecticut avenue and the
widening of Eleventh street.
List Of Projects.
The various paving projects which
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| row. with the amount asked for each
are as follows: InRraham street
from Seventh 10 Eighth street, Sc 500;
Center street Meridian place and Og-
den street, S4,T00 Decatur street Six
| teenth street to Seventeenth street
$500: Decatur street. Kansas ave
nue. to Fifth street, $500: Eighth
| street from Decatur street To Elmer
| son street $500: T. street northea st
from Lincoln road To Second street.
| SIP. 500: Neal street northeast West
Virginia avenue Trinidad avenue
| $4,000: Oates street northeast. from
| Montello avenue to Trinidad avenue
| $40. 200. Trinidad avenue northeast
from Neal street Ia Queen street.
$4,000.
For grading. including necessary
culvert drains and retaining walls. the
! following projects are recommended
| to Wisconsin avenue. SIS 500; Cathe-
| dral avenue. Conduit road TO Weaver
| place, $l3,boO. Alhemarle street Mas
| sachusetts avenue to Murdoch Mil
| road. 900: Garfield street Tunlaw
| road 10 Forty-fourfh street $500:
! Twenty-ninth street. Woodlev road to
| Calvert streetfi tl5.00n; Dix stree,
| northeast. Forty fourth to FOrty-ninth
street, 81 400; Evarts street northeast
l Third
| Firth Sterling avenue southeast, How
ard road TO Stevens road, $500.
VIII View Other Projects.
| The subcommittee will also examine
! the extension OF Bra ndywine. Thirty
eighth. Fortieth and Forty first
| streets mort Invest under the indefinite
| appropriation for the payments of
| awards and expenses in the opening,
! extension and widening of streets and
| highways to conform with the perma-
| nent system of highways in the Dis
| trict of Columbia
| The projects to be carried out un-
| der the $500. 900 gasoline tax fund.
! which will be inspected by the sub
| committee tomorrow. are: The widen
| Ing Of Connecticut avenue by 10 feet
on each side. To total width
| of so feet and repaVing the roadway
| from * street To NJ street and for
! widening by - feet on the east side
| to a total width of 90 feet and repay
| ing the roadway of Connecticut ave
| nue. from NJ street to Eighteenth
| street al a total cost Of $50 .0oo.
For widening to 70 feet and re-
| paving the roadway or Eleventh
| street from Pennsylvania avenue to
| New York avenue. $4,000. In addi-
! ton to this an appropriat ton of 81
! 600 for paving and repaving the
| roadway of Eleventh street from +
| street 10 street, So feet wide. which
was carried in the appropriation act
| for The current wear. is asked to bS
made available for widening and re-
| paving the roadway of this street
10 feet wide from Pennsylvania
| avenue to New York avenue.
| In the widening and repaTinE OF
| these roa dways 40 per cent of the en-
| tire cost would he assessed against
| abutting property owners. who would
| also be required TO modify at their
| own expense the roofs of any vaults
| that may be under the sidewalks for
| parking on these streets if II Is found
| necessary to change such vaults TO
permit the roadway to he widened.
| Other Paving Proposals.
| Other projects under the gasoline
| tax fund are for paving, repaving and
| ufIdclTS, llltIuulHs tuI iiilS anu
tering where necessary: Columbia
road! Sixteenth street to Eighteenth
street So. 900; Massachusetts avenue,
Fourteenth street to Eighteenth street.
500 900: Vermont avenue, Thomas Cir
| Gle to Iowa Circle, $4,000; Vermont
avenue, X street TO II street Sl3. 500:
| r street. Ninth street to Fourteenth
| street, $32 900; Virginia avenue north
| east, from Florida avenue to Penn
| street. $20.700: kentucky avenue
| southeast, IL street to Admiral Barney
| Circle 81, 400; kentucky avenue south
| east Fifteenth street to South Caro-
lima avenue, $4,000; G street south
| east Twelfth street to Fifteenth
street. s35 POO: Kansas avenue north
| west Sherman Circle TO Farragut
street. S24 900: Buchanan street, New
| Hampshire avenue to Kansas avenue,
SO 900: south and east side of Sher
| man Circle, Kansas avenue to Crit
| tenden street and Illinois avenue,
Bucha street to Sherman Circle,
S12 zoe; Scott Circle, $4,000.