Evening star., 1933-09-19
P STREET BRIDGE
CONTRACT IS OK D
BY DISTRICT HEADS
Constitution Avenue Widen.
ing and 20 Other Street
Projects Also Approved.
ROCK CREEK SPAN
CALLS FOR $199,347
Bids for Work on Highways Will
Be Asked in Next Few Days
by Officials.

Contracts for construction of. new
P street bridge over Rock Creek and for
extensive improvement of Good Hope
road southeast, made possible under the
Districts grant of $1,918.O0O under the
national industrial recovery act appro-
priation, were approved today by the
District Commissioners
At the same time the city heads ap-
proved plans for widening and paving
of Constitution avenue from North Cap
itol to Second street and for the paw
ing of 20 local streets. to be
financed out of the S1,158,640 of the
Districts surplus gasoline tax revenues,
Lewis w. Douglas.
Bids to Be Asked Soon.
Bids for the projects under the gaso-
line tax surplus will be asked by the
Commissioners In the next few days.
and the work will be let in the near
future. This is the first group Of
projects to be authorized by the Com
missioners under the surplus gasoline
tax fund. although they already have
ordered preparation of detailed specifl-
cations for the new Calvert Street
Bridge over Rock Creek, for which the
budget director approved an item Of
s575.000 to start construction. 1t will
be several months, however, before this
bridge can be placed under contract.
Contract for construction Of the P
Street Bridge was awarded to Pecora,
GaSkLl Engineering and Contracting
Corporation and A. T CaroZza of Balti-
more. who submitted the low bid Of
S199,347
The other contract. for work to be
done under the public works fund. is for
the grading, paving and curbing of
Good Hope road southeast between
Nichols avenue and Naylor road. The
award went to the Highway Engineer
ing & Construction Co. of this city,
which submitted a bid of slO1 ,7s9 so.
A cement concrete roadway is to be
made on this street.
Three Under Contract.
These two constitute the fourth and
fifth highway projects here to be
! financed out of the public works grant
( The first three. already under con-
tract, are for the improvement of Six
teenth street from Columbia road to
Tiger Bridge; Foxhall road from
Reservoir road to Nebraska avenue, and
| = StACCG Ocl"ecll Tulctull SLI6el anu
West Executive avenue south of the
| White House grounds.
| The Commissioners today also au-
| thorized another public works project,
| Tor the paving of Reservoir road be-
tween FoXhall road and Conduit road.
bids for which will be asked later.
Ihe total cost for the improvement
| OF Constitution avenue, as authorized
today by the Commissioners, is not to
| exceed $76,235, of which the Districts
share will be not to exceed 45,741, the
remainder to be borne by the Federal
| Government. The avenue between
| to be w1dened to 73 feet and from
First to Second streets to SO feet,
20 Paving Projects Listed.
The 20 local street projects ordered
! to be paved out of funds out of the
gasoline tax surplus funds released by
Director Douglas are:
Oliver street, Broad Branch road to
Nevada avenue: Nevada avenue. Ne
| braska avenue to Thirty sixth street;
WaIbrldge place, Park road to Adams
Mill road: Twelfth street, Rittenhouss
to Sheridan streets; Twenty-sixtl
street, Virginia to New Hampshire
avenues; Fourteenth street. Juniper
| street to Kalmia road; Rittenhouse
| street, Georgia avenue to Twelfth
street; Park place southeast, Twenty
fifth street to point about 300 feet
east; Palmer place southeast, Twenty
fifth street to point $50 feet east:
| Twenty-third place northeast, E
street to a point 300 feet south: E
street northeast, Twenty-third place
to alley east of Twenty-fourth street
Seventh street, Nicholson street to
| Oglethorpe street; Nicholson street.
Sixth to Seventh Streets Longfellow
! street, Second to Third streets: Tucker
man street, Second place to Third
street; Tuckerman street, Eighth to
| Ninth streets; Dahlia street. Georgia
avenue to Ninth street; Eighth street,
Aspen to Butternut streets; Ninth
street, Aspen to Butternut streets, and
Randolph street northeast, Bladens-
burg road to Twenty-fourth street.