Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15
2 MILES OF NEW
ROADS ARE ASKED
Prince Georges Commission
ers Hold Policy of Finishing
Work Under Way.
BY GEORGE PORTER,

STAFF Correspondent OF The star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md, January
Reconstruction of nine roads, total
ing approximately % miles in length,
was recommended to the State Roads
Commission by the Prince Georges
County commissioners yesterday. The
roads to be built this year are:
Extension from Aquasco toward the
Charles County line, about miles,
gravel.
Completion from Laurel to Bowie,
about miles, gravel.
Completion from Largo to upper
Marlboro, miles, gravel.
Extension of Livingston road from
Piscataway toward the Charles County
line, about 3 miles, gravel.
Construction of / mile, concrete, Old
Powder Factory road, westward from
Beltsville
Addition of miles to the Groome
road, gravel.
Construction Of a concrete road con-
Meeting the Baltimore Boulevard and
the EomondSton road through Berwyn
and Berwyn Heights.
Addition of mile on the Oxon Hill
road from Hunts Corner to Gordons
Corner, macadam.
Extension of the Cool Spring road
from College Park toward the Riggs
road, about mile, concrete.
Policy Adhered To.
In making these recommendations the
commissioners followed their announced
policy of completing and extending
roads already under construction rather
than starting new ones. The only road
recommended that does not fall in this
category is the one through Berwyn, and
in making this recommendation the
commissioners were carrying out a
promise last year that lateral road
would be built in that district. Resi-
dents of Berwyn and Branchville could
not agree on which road should be built,
however, and each made strenuous eff
forts to persuade the commissioners to
build the road through their respective
communities, although the two pro-
posed routes are only about half mile
apart.
In finally deciding on the Berwyn
route the commissioners passed an or
der stating that later in the year a tar
surfaced road would be built in Branch
vile between the railroad tracks and
the Baltimore Boulevard. This would
be a county and not State road, how
ever.
In accordance with a request of the
State Roads Commission the county
heads made their recommendations ear
lier this year than usual, so that actual
road building operations may be started
as soon as weather permits.
Two laSt-minute requests for roads
were made by delegations yesterday. A
group from Seat Pleasant district asked
the improvement of Carmody road
Charles G. MarbKy and Mrs. Francis S.
Carmody spoke for the delegation.
CoIesviile Road Work.
The other delegation from Riverdale
and Hyattsviile requested thee improve
ment of the Colesville road from the
and the New Cut road to Queens Chapel
road. L. L. Powers of Hyattsville was
spokesman for the delegation.
improvement of the road was urged
not as a cutoff from the Baltimore
Boulevard, but as a benefit to several
surrounding communities, and as means
Of further developing a large area.
The project backed by the citizens has
been recommended for improvement by
the mayor and council OF Riverdale and !
HyattSville, the Hyattsville Chamber of
Commerce and the Exchange Club Of
Prince Georges County.
Among those who appeared before
the commissioners were: o. B. Zant-
ringer, jr., president Of the Exchange
Club: H. w. Spicknall, chairman of the
Chamber of Commences committee seek
ing the road r. c. Zantzinger, A. H
Seidenspinner, M T. May, Charles L.
Erwin, H. G. Fleming, Max Vollberg and |
G. A. Magoon. A petition bearing more
than 100 signatures of persons favor
ing the road was also presented to the
commissioners.