Evening star., 1934-06-20
Whitehurst Begins Mapping
Tentative Program for
Road Improvement.
MAY SPEND HALF OF SUM
DURING CURRENT SEASON
Sees Start of Work Soon After
Public Roads Bureau In.
structions.

An allotment of S973.842 for use
of the District Highway Department
has been made by Undersecretary of
Agriculture Tugwell, who yesterday
announced spportionment of the
5000, 900 900 fund provided in the new
highway construction act
Maryland was given s1.810O5s: Vir-
ginia. S3.765,367 and West Virginia,
S2.28O,335.
Texas received the largest fund.
S12.291, ,253, with New York getting
sI1.327 ,92i; Pennsylvania, $3.50 .7ss;
Illinois, s8,92l, ,40l, and California,
1892, ,2O6.
Available Immediately.
The money will be made available
Immediately for allotment to construc-
ton projects on the Federal aid high,
way system and its extensions into
and through cities and on important
secondary roads.
Highway Director H C. Whitehurst
began mapping out a tentative pro-
gram for road improvement immedi-
ately after announcement of the allot-
menr. He anticipated that work could
be started within a few days after
formal instructions have been received
from the Bureau of Public Roads,
Agriculture Department.
Half of the sum. he expected. could
be spent during the current working
season and the remainder next Spring
on projects on which there must be
preliminary steps taken, such as COM
pleting condemnation. surface and
Underground construction, such as
street car track and sewer projects.
respectively.
Projects will be selected most likely
from three tentative lists of need
work
Study may dictate some changes.
however, he said
Following is the tentative list of
replacement of pavement out of which
will be selected the special jobs:
Rhode Island avenue, Logan Circle
to Scott Circle: east side of Connec-
tlcut avenue, Jenifer street to Chevy
Chase Circle; Connecticut avenue
Cathedral avenue to a point $50 feet
south of KAngle bridge; Rhode Island
avenue northeast, north side, Twelfth
TO Sixteenth streets
Rhode Island avenue northeast,
south side, from Fourteenth to Six
( teenth streets: Rhode Island avenue,
Seventh to Ninth streets; approaches
to the Eleventh Street Bridge, south
east; New York avenue, North Cap
ital street to New Jersey avenue, and
Water street southwest, L to P streets
Needed Widening Projects.
The following is a tentative list OF
needed widening and repaving pro-
jects:
Twenty-second street, I street to
Pennsylvania avenue; Twelfth street
southwest, Independence avenue to D
street: independence avenue south
west. Twelfth to Fourteenth streets
Mount Vernon place, Seventh I,
Ninth streets; Fifteenth street, Mas
sachusetts TO Rhode Island avenues
Maryland avenue southwest, Third L
Fourth streets; Twenty-second stree,
Virginia to Constitution avenues
Rhode Island avenue northeast, Mort
Capitol to Fourth street; D stree
& NOAeAA"S-o1- W run
streets; Eighteenth street, Florida av-
/ enue to Columbia road: Seventeenth
: street, Pennsylvania avenue to II
street; Ninth street. Pennsylvania tc
Constitution avenues; Tenth street,
Pennsylvania to Constitution avenues:
! Virginia avenue. Constitution avenue
to Twenty-sixth street, and Fourth
street, Pennsylvania to Maryland av-
enues southwest.
| Following is the list of new paving
projects being considered as a portion
of the new program:
| Naylor road southeast. Good Hopt
Road 10 the District line: Kenilwortt
avenue northeast, Benning road tt
District line: Branch avenue southeast
I Pennsylvania to Alabama avenues
Lincoln road northeast, Rhode Islanc
/ to Michigan avenues; Massachusetts
/ avenue. Observatory Circle to Wiscon.
sin avenue; Eastern avenue north.
east. Randolph street to Bladensburi
road; New Hampshire avenue. Ran
dolph street to Grant Circle, and Fox.
hall road, Canal to Reservoir roads.