Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-19
MILES OF ROADWAY
ON WORK PROGRAM
Construction in Montgomery
County Now Under Way
or Being Planned.
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.


ROCKVILLE, Md, September 10
Miles of resurfacing of county roads
now are under construction or in con-
temptation in Montgomery County, and
most of them will be ready for use by
the time Winter arrives, it was learned
here today Two bond issues, totaling
$S75, 600, will be sold on October Is to
cover the cost of these Improvements,
although the amount of reSuTfacing
will not be as great as was hoped for
when the bills were originally intro
duced in the Legislature and passed by
the Lower House The funds were re-
stricted when they were cut in the
State Senate.
Issue Cut in Senate.
Considerable work already has been
done on the program OF roadWays, the
money for which is provided in the two
bond issues to be sold, and more Is to
be done before Winter on contracts to
be let next month. The $475,000 bond
issue for road construction, when 1t
passed the House of Delegates, provided
for 1882, 600, but was cut in the Senate
by Senator Eugene Jones or kenSmgton
as part of his economy program In an
effort to reduce the taxation. The cut
in the bond issue made it necessary to
revamp the program provided IN the
original measure, cutting out proposed
road construction, which was said to be
badly needed.
The projects on which this issue will
be spent, and the present status OF each
Of them, follow: =,
From Jacksonville to connect with
nacadam road now being built from
Old Germantown toward Jacksonville.
$4,000. Work now Is being done on
this project From Browns Corner on
the ColeSville- Ashton road to Spencer
Vile, $4,000. Has not been started:
Road builders now are working on the
road from Old Germantown toward the
Jamestown road. for which $20,0 has
been allotted. The project from Olney
to Laytonsville to Etchison to Damas-
Gus. for which 100000 Is provided. Is
about one-third done. The strip of IL
miles from Damascus to Lavtonsville by
way of Woodfleld. for which $4,000 Is
provided, will be finished Saturday. This
appropriation, 1t was pointed out; VII
leave mile unimproved between WOOD
field and Laytonsville, which contains
an expensive bridge and two bad hills.
Bids to Be Opened October 8.
Bids will be opened on october 8 for
concreting the east side of Connecticut
avenue from Bradley lane to Chevy
Chase Lake, for which $4,000 Is pro-
vided. This roadway will relieve con-
siderable traf1c conditions on North
Connecticut avenue. now made danger
GUS bv the necessity for traffic to use
one side of the car tracks for part OF
the way.
Road Completed.
The road. for which $31 600 was pro-
vided, extending over the old street rail-
at North Woodside to Forest Glen, has
been completed and now is open to
traffic.
All Of the above are 16-foot highways
and the following 9-foot highways, with
3-foot stone shoulders on either side, !
are provided for. The purpose OF build
ing the 9-foot roads, 1t was pointed out.
was to get as many people out of the
mud as possible, and was due also to
the cut in the appropriation made in
the State Senate; These roads and
their present status In the construction
program follow:
Grading has been finished on the
road from Purdum to Lewisdale, and
concrete laying will be started Satur-
day. This project was allotted $4,000.
The surfacing of the road from Cedar
10000 Is provided will be started In
about one month. Bids viii be- opened
on october l for the $4,000 project
from Travilah to Potomac Cross
Roads. Grading will be started Mon
day on the road from Clarksburg
toward Kings old distillery, for which
$4,000 was allotted. Work now Is
being done on the road toward Sugar
land from the end of concrete con-
struction southwest of Jacksonville, for
which SIS, 900 was allotted.
Bids will be opened on October
for the $4,000 project from Comus to
Dickerson by way of Mount Ephraim.
Bids we're opened last week. but the
contract has not yet been awarded for |
the $4,000 project for widening the
Muncaster Mill Road, one mile on each |
end.
Grading Finished.
Grading has been finished and con- |
creting will soon begin on the short |
strip of Columbia Boulevard from |
Georgia avenue at North Woodside |
toward the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
at Sixteenth street, for which $4,000 !
was allotted. Bids will be opened Oc- |
tober for the extension of the east
west highway in Bethesda by way OF |
Leland street to the underpaSS Of the |
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad on Bradley |
and for raising the western !
roadway in the town of Bethesda from |
the old Georgetown road to Bradley |
lane. For this project $4,000 Is pro- |
vided, and the street railway company
now is adjusting its tracks to the new |
grade preparatory to beginning the !
street work.
Bids will be opened october Is for |
the state road project from Jamestown
to Seneca, distance of mile. These |
bids will be opened by the State Roads |
Commission in Baltimore. while the I
other bids will be opened by the county |
commissioners here.
The other projects, provided In the !
$500, 900 bond issue and specified in the |
act itself, have not progressed. Only |
one of them is ready to be offered Tor |
contract. 1t is the proposed macadan
road from Laytonsville- Woodfeld road |
towards Goshen at a cost of 5000, for |
which bids will be opened on october |
IS. Nothing has been done in the way |
of asking for bids on theW following: |
Macadam road from Dickerson toward !
Martinsburg, 10000: macadam road
from Dickerson towards Sugar Loaf
$4,000; macadam road from |
Poolesville toward Edwards Ferry, |
sac 900: widening of Commerce street In
Rockville an additional 16 feet, $4,000.