Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-20
ROADS EXTENSION
PROGRAM ADOPTED
Montgomery Delegates Agree
1. on Plan for Many Miles
of Paved Highway.
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

y STATE HOUSE, ANNAPOLIS, Nd,
February 20.-Extension of the good
4oad system of Montgomery County and
improvement of some parts Of it by the
construction of shoulders has been
Tentatively laid down, following confer
ences between county officials and
legislative representatives, 1t was made
known today by E. Brooke Lee of Silver
Spring, Democratic leader and speaker
OF the House of Delegates.
The program is in three parts--for
construction under the lateral and post
road funds, divided into 1929 and 1880
construction, and construction under
the proposed bond issue, which will be
submitted to the House of Delegates
next week, according to Speaker Lee.
The proposed bond issue for road
building will total $517 900, of which
$4,000 will be spent in the area out
side of the suburban district, and $97,-
600 in the section adjacent to the Dis
trict of Columbia. Speaker Lee pointed
out that the rural section had been
given the majority of the road con-
Struction. while the suburban area will
obtain the greater benefit from the
School construction program, plans hav-
ing been made to spend $350,000 in the
suburban area as against $4,000 in
4he rural district. Speaker Lee said
that this distribution practically puts
The two bond issues on a $3.50 basis
as between the rural and suburban
area.
Jones Holds Key.
q While the program as laid down,
according to Speaker Lee, has been APP
mroved by the Board of County Com
Emissioners, the members of the House
kOf Delegates and the chairman of the
democratic State central committee for
montgomery County, he indicated that
IF there was any opposition on the
part of Senator Eugene Jones of Ken
tstngton, the whole program may have
TO be changed. That is, if the bond
issue meets an obstruction in the Sem
ate, the tentative program for the use
of the lateral and post road funds from
the State and Federal Government may
have to be further divided.
Speaker Lee said that the county re-
EeiveS approximately four and a half
miles of State roads per year from the
post road funds, half of which is pro-
iyided by the United States and half
by the State. The balance is lateral
road construction, paid for out of the
gasoline tax. These roads, for the most
part, he explained, are generally built
Where recommended to the State Roads
Commission by the county commits
kioners
Two important projects laid down for
me suburban area are for the construc-
ton, at cost of $4,000, of mile of
concrete on the east side. of Connecti-
cut avenue from Bradley lane to Chevy
Chase Lake, and the construction of a
new 1S-foot concrete road on the old
electric railway right of way from
Georgia avenue to Forest Glen, provid-
ing a more direct route for traffic to
this section. The Connecticut avenue
improvement is much needed, as traffic
now must use one side of the railway
tracks. and it is particularly heavy
during the Summer when the lake resort
IS open. The new Forest Glen road.
1t Is estimated, will cost $4,000. Other
projects in the bond issue in the subur-
Dan area provide $4,000 for shoulders
and backfil on the Kensington- Garrett
Park highway, and new bridge over
Rock Creek Between Kensington and
Garrett Park at cost of 500
The projects laid down in the pro-
posed bond issue for the so-called up-
county or rural section are: One mile
OF macadam from Damascus toward
Lewisdale, $4,000: one mile of con-
crete from Old Germantown toward
Jamestown road, $35, 5000: one mile of
macadam road from the end Of the
1923 macadam" construction from Old
Germantown toward Jacksonville. $25.-
200; one and half miles of macadam
road from Cedar Grove toward Kings
eey, $4,000; backfill and five miles of
yDnoulder work on the Muncaster Mill
road, $4,000; one and one-half miles
OF macadam road from Jacksonville to
connect macadam road now being built
from Old Germantown toward Dawson
WiHe, $35 900; one and one-quarter miles
Df macadam from Travilah to Potomac
cross roads, $35, 900; backfiIl and 1--WE
miles Of shoulders on Trayilah-Rock-
vile road, $4,000: one and one-half
miles OF county macadam, Clarksburg
80 Kings old distillery, $4,000: resur-
facing OF three miles of Columbia road
from the end of the 1928 construction
20 Burtonsville, $50, 1000, and resurfacing
OF the road from Brinklow toward
s5righton, for two miles of road built
n 1923, including construction of
bridge, $4,000.
Other Projects Planned.
!. The tentative lateral and post road
program as agreed upon, which NAV
nave to be changed, If the proposed
bond issue fails of passage by the
Legislature, follows: Etchison toward
Damascus, one mile; Damascus toward
Etchison, one mile; final stretch of the
Eeneca-DarneStoWn road, one-half mile:
kempStown toward Frederick, final sec
Lion, one-haf mile; Brookeville toward
sunshine, one and one-ularter miles.
This Is Tor the current year, and the
1850 program is as follows: Etchison
Toward Damascus, one mile; Damascus
howard Woodfield, one and one-ouarter
miles; final stretch of Sunshine to
ftoWard County line, one mile; and one
Rnlle from Olney toward Laytonsville.
!. Speaker Lee explained further that
Ghis leaves two miles between OIney and
Aaytonsyille and one mile between
iEtchiSon and Damascus unbllilt, All of
the other through road projects as now
started, he added, will be finished. He
'Rlso said that this program would leave
pne mile of road unbuilt between
damascus and Woodfeld.
I The county leaders say that they are
9noping that the road bond issue will
not meet with any opposition in the
Senate, but that the delegates to the
House will see that it is passed. Under
Ethe system of local self government,
Rpplied in legislative matters. approval
pr such bond issue by the delegation
representing the political subdivision
8oncerned carries the approval of the
whole membership So, It was explain
I'd, II Senator Jones shows any oppo-
eition In the Senate, there is little pos
ability of getting it passed. But they
explained that they are going to put
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