Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
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PROJECTS DECIDED
Montgomery Officials Make
Up List of Roads for I'M
proVement This Year.

A s475,000 read building and i'm
provsment program for Montgomery
County this year was assured yesterday
when the Board of County Commission
ers, in session at Rockville, adopted
resolution setting forth the projects for
which the $475, 900 bond issue will be
expended
The program as announced by the
commissioners provides for new road
construction and improvements IN every
section of the county and the construc-
ton of l6-foot highways on the high
ways where traffic is heaviest. In order
to get other sections out Of the mud
the commissioners also authorize the
construction of nine-foot highways
where only local traffic is anticipated.
The commissioners point cut that
their entire countrywide road program
for this year, as originally agreed upon,
cannot be carried out because State
Senator Eugene Jones at the last seS-
sion Of the Maryland Legislature re-
duced the road bond issue, already
passed by the House of Delegates, from
$77S2 900 to $475,000.
Projects Were Named.
This road bond issue bill authorizing
the expenditure Of 1882 600, named each
anu lIlC dIlOuhk W bC opSAAb Ava
that project. Senator Jones amended
the bill, the commissioners say, reduc-
ing the amount to $475,000, or approx
imately SO per cent. and eliminated the
naming of the projects to be improved.
This action has resulted in the Board
of County Commissioners drafting a
new program providing for the eXpendl-
ture of the $475,00O and naming the
projects and the amounts to be ex-
pended on each.
The resolution of the commissioners
states that the board considers the con-
struction. of 16-foot concrete high
way between Olney, Laytonsville and
Damascus as one of the major unfin-
jshed projects remaining in Montgomery
County and consequently has not re-
duced this appropriation as originally
included in the S782,0 bond issues,
although it has been necessary to re-
duce or eliminate other appropriations.
A total of 100000 is appropriated for
this project.
Would Aid Bethesda.
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 George
town road and Bradley lane to the level
Of the Eastern side and the additional
extension of the East and West subur
ban highway toward Bradley lane by
the way of Leland street as of vital
importance to the business center of
the important Bethesda section which
Is the largest tax paying area in Mont
gomery County, and regards the allo-
cation of $4,000 for expenditure in ap-
proximately the center of the Bethesda
district as equitable and proper"
The board further says that this ZAP
preparation 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 Delegates"
Projects Listed.
The 16-foot project named by the
board to be improved this year and
the amount authorized for each prof. |
ect arc
From end Of 1923 macadcm con-
struction from Ola Germantown
toward Dawsonvils ............S 10000 90 |
caoam road now being built from
Old Germantown toward Daw- 80 ~ |
eerviile e' .,....e.1... I5,ocooo
toward Darnestown road - 80. 100000 |
Eschison to Damascus. ,:..' .e W 100000 90
of Woodfieid for II miles. To-
East GO' side Ct avenue
Chase Lake ...........'. 100000 |
Woodside to Forest Glen. con-
Tisht of way. ..-.............. $1,000 90 |
The o-foot projects named by the
board to be carried out this year and
the amount authorized for each project
are:
Prom Purdum toward Lewisdale. S 100000
From end of the 1928 macadam
construction running westerly
from the Germantown railroad a. 6oo ~
Cedar Grove toward Kingley 49,. 10000. 90 |
Travilah to Potomac Crossroads. 20, 600. 90 |
Clarksburg toward Kings old dis ]
toward s1earriand from end end Of to'''O''O
e e DsSsoS SShfsruc'ion 90
way Uas Of NJ Ephrsim. 'i SS.' 100000
Backfll for shoulder work for two
ca miles Of reconstHuction Of the
mile 's on the aa northern a END ana
one % miles on the southern
END Of tbs ,hiEhgay;; w., ;;a;o;.i: 22'ooooo
avenue at North Woodside toward
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
End Sixteenth street at the g nm m
For extension sion IN the Bethesda -''O'''O'
district of the east and west
suburban highway from the route
way Of feisnd street st TO to the UNI IN
derpass of the Baltimore Ohio
Railroad on the Bradley Boule-
Western .a nno ro 5O n to the e CO ter
Of the town of Bethesda from
the old GEORGETOWN road to- an am AZ