Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-28
BOULEVARD WORK
IS |NAUGURATED
Virginia to Build Eight Miles
of Roadway in Airing
ton County.

With the. announcement that IL will
ton County. the Virginia State Highway
Commission lats night took the inau-
gural step in construction of boule-
ward to extend from the new Arlington
Memorial Bridge to the Shenandoah
National Park.
The building program as outlined
by the commission last night calls for
construction of approximately 5a4 miles
of roadway along the route of the Lee
Boulevard and 2i4 miles along the line
of the straightforward bridge route,
advocated by another group of Airing
ton County residents. who opposed the
plan OF the Lee Boulevard, The COM
mission plans to begin construction
work within the next few weeks.
Lee boulevard Section.
The Lee Boulevard section, authorized
last night. with 200-foot right of
way. starts at the Virginia terminal of
the new bridge. borders Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery and the Fort Myer
reservation on the north and turns south
at the northwest corner of the military
reservation From that point it swings
toward the wireless towers, by-passing
Clarendon, Lyon Park and Ashton
Heights, skirts Brandon Village and
Bon Air on the south. crosses Four
Mile Greek near Torreson and parallels
Wilson Boulevard on the south to Fort
Buffalo. on the Alexandria a-Leesburg
Pike, halfway between Falls Church
and Baileys Crossroads
The section of the ''Straight-to-t the
bridge" route commences at Clarendon
and runs directly to the point at the
corner of Fort Myer reservation, where
the Lee Boulevard swings to the South.
When the establishment of the Lee
boulevard was first proposed two fac
tions sprung up In Arlington County.
one seeking southern route for the
road through undeveloped territory and
the other striving for course through
the thickly populated areas of Claren-
don and Ballston to Falls Church, fol-
lowing direct course across the county.
The State Highway Commission sew
matter In the county, following which
1t agreed to adopt the southerly route.
The commission at that time ruled that
the so-called direct road was a local
project and should be constructed by
the county.
Route Is Recommended.
Later, however. when IL was deter
mined that Arlington would be allotted
eight miles out OF that provided in the
Statewide road-huilding program. citi-
zen groups of the county advised the
commission that 1t was their wish that
the State build the Lee boulevard over
the southern route and the mileage
remaining be used on the direct route
and this settled the dispute.
The highway commission has not as
yet given notice of the exact width of
The roadway IL will build, but In the
past State roads have not been more
than 10 feet wide. The boulevard
hackerS hope for 20-foot road.
From Fort Buffalo the Lee Highway
Association plans TO carry the Lee
boulevard through To CentervilIe a dis
tance OF % miles. where 1t will con-
meet with the Lee Highway. This
route lies through "A populois tanning
country and, according To DR.. S. M
Johnson, president Of the association,
many OF the residents have Indicated
lheir Willingness 10 let the State have
the right OF way II needs