Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-05-17
Highway Projects In The county
Decided Upon.

~ v4iO'OOO EOdu quilting ana Improve
; ment program for Montgomery County thi
year was assured when the Board O
County Commissioners, in session at Rock
J vile. adopted resolution setting fortI
the projects for which the $475. 900 bond
issue will be expended.
The program as announced by the com
missioners provides for new road construc.
ton and Improvements in every section OF
the comfy and the construction OF l6-fooi
highways on the highways where traffic is
heaviest. In order to get other sections
out OF the mud the commissioners also
authorize the construction of 9-foot high
ways where only local traffic is anticipated.
The commissioners point out that their
county wide program for the year. as origi-
nally agreed upon. cannot be carried out
because the Maryland Legislature reduced
the road bond issue from $4,000 to
$475.OOO.
This action has resulted in the commits
siOners drafting new program providing
for the expenditure of the $475,000 and
naming the projects and the amounts to
be expended on each.
The resolution states that the board con-
siders the construction Of 16-foot concrete
highway between Olney. Laytonsville and
Damascus as one Of the major unfinished
projects remaining in this county and con-
sequently has not reduced this appropria-
ton as originally included in the 1882. 900
bond issues, although it has been neces-
sary to reduce or eliminate other appro
priations. A total Of 100000 is apppro-
priated for this project.
The resolution also says that the board
regards the raising Of the grade Of the
west side of Wisconsin avenue between
the intersection Of Old Georgetown road
and Bradley Lane to the level of the east
ern side and the additional extens on of
the east and west suburban highway tow
ard Bradley Lane by the way Of Leland
street as Of vital importance to the bust
ness center of the important Bethesda
section which is the largest tax paying
area in Montgomery County. and regards
the ALLEGATION Of $4,000 for expenditure
in approximately the center Of the Be-
thesda district as equitable and proper"
The board further says that this "appro-
priatiOn to be spent in the center Of the
Bethesda section is the only addition we
are now making to the schedule Of roads
to be improved as recommended by this
board and passed by the House Of Dele
Gates"
The l6-fOot project named by the board
to be improved this year and the amount
authorized for each project are
From end of 1928 macadam construction
from Old German toward Jacksonville. 500. :
900.
load now being built from Old Germantown
toward Jacksonville. 100000.
From Browns Corner toward Spencer
vile. $4,000.
From end of 1928 construction south
west of Old Germantown toward barnes
town road. $4,000.
From Olney to Laytonsville to EtchisoU
! to Damascus, 100000.
Damascus to Laytonsville by way Of
Woodfield for IL miles, 18-foot highway
about $4,000.
East side of Connecticut avenue from
Bradley Lane to Chevy Chase Lake. $50.
900.
Georgia avenue extended at North Wood
side to Forest Glen, concrete road on old
street railway right-Of-way. So. 900.
The 9-foot projects named by the boar
to be carried out this year and the amour
authorized for each project are:
From Purdum toward Lewisdale, SIS .OOO
From end of 1928 macadam construc
ton running westerly rom the German
town railroad bridge toward Neelsville
$4,000.
Cedar Grove toward Kingley. 100000.
Travilah to Potomac. 100000.
Clarksburg toward Kings old distillery
$4,000.
Toward Sugarland from end of cOncret
construction southwest of Jacksonville
Sis. 900.
From Comus toward Dickerson by wa
of Mt. Ephraim. $4,000.
Backfill for shoulder work for two mile
of reconstruction Of the Muncaster Mi
road. one mile on the northern end an
one mile on the southern end Of this high
way. $4,000. .t
Columbia Boulevard from Georgia avenu
at North Woodside toward the Baltimor
& Ohio Railroad and Sixteenth street a
the District line. $4,000.
For the extension in the Bethesda dis
trict of the east and west suburban high
way from the route Of the present con
tract by the way of Leland street to tn
underpass of the Baltimore & Ohio Raj
road on the Bradley Boulevard and for III
raising of the western roadway to tn
center Of the town Of Bethesda from tn
old Georgetown road to Bradley Lan'
$32. 900.