Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
STREET IMPROVING
TO START MARCH |
$463,O0O Program Laid Out,
Calling for Work on
al Highways.

The Districts initial street improve
ment program for 1927 calling for the
repair surface and resurfacing of Al
streets, involving a total cost of S463,'
600, was announced yesterday by the
highway department. Twelve of the
principal projects. costing approx
mately 1913, 900, will be paid from the
gasoline tax revenues. Appropria-
tions for street repairs for the cur
rent fiscal year will pay the cost of
the others.
The largest and most important
project is the resurfacing of Thirty
fifth street from Prospect to Wiscon-
sin avenue, estimated to cost $15 900
Chief among the resurfacing jobs are
the renewal of the paving on the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue
from Washington Circle to Twenty
fifth street, and on the north side OF
this avenue from Washington Circle
to Twenty-Sixth street.
The improvement program is sched
uled to get under way by March /
unless the weather interferes. The
resurfacing of Pennsylvania avenue
however, will be delayed somewhat
due to the plans of the Capital Trac
tion Co. to relay its tracks on this
street.
Gasoline Tax Fund Projects.
The projects to be paid for out OF
the gasoline tax fund. in addition tC
the resurfacing Of Pennsylvania ave
nue., follow =
!. Northwestern street, Twelfth te
.Feurteefith streets. X street, Seventh
to Ninth streets; Woodley road, Cathe
dral to- WISCONSIN avenues: Thirty
fifth street, Prospect to- Wfscensih ave
-nilcs, and Wisconsin ayeuue4 Xhixt&
seventh street to Massackussttk
Northeast--Sixteenth street, East
Capitol to B streets. and L street
Second to Sixth streets.
Southeast-vG street, Fourteenth to
Fifteenth streets; G street. Sixteenth
to Seventeenth streets, and Sixteenth
street. A street to Massachusetts
avenue.
Appropriation Projects. {.
The resurfacing jobs which will be
cared for out of current oppropria-
tions follow:
Northwest-Ninth street, Pennsyl.
vania avenue to d street: Ninth street,
D to E streets; Eleventh street. o
street to Florida avenue; Seventeenth
street, New York to Pennsylvania
avenues: Twenty-second street, Massa-
chusotts avenue to r street; Twenty
second street, Q street to Massa-
chusetts avenue; Thirtieth street, NJ
street to the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal; California street, Connecticut
avenue to Phelps place; Calvert
street, from the bridge to Connecti-
cut avenue; D street. Eighth to Ninth
streets; Dupont Circle. west side; Fl
street. Fifteenth street to Vermont
avenue; l street, Ninth to Tenth
streets and Thirteenth to Fourteenth
streets. and Fifteenth street to Yer
mont avenue; Nj street, New York to
New Jersey avenues; New York ave
nue.. nj street to New Jersey avenue;
New Jersey avenue, NJ street to New
York avenue; New York avenue.
Tenth to Eleventh streets, and Sew
enteenth to Eighteenth streets: Phelps
place, California street to Leroy place:
Quincy street, Georgia avenue to Sew.
enth street; S street, Florida avenue
to Phelps place and New Jersey ave-
nue. to Sixth street; T street, Fifteenth
to Sixteenth streets.
Northeast - Second street, Rhode
Island avenue to V street: Sixth
street, Massachusetts, to MARYLAND
avenues; B street, Eighth to Ninth
streets; Gales street, Fifteenth to Six
teenth streets.