Evening star., 1934-09-09
g, 100000 GAS TAX
USE FOR STREETS
IANDSPANS SOUGHT
Highway Units 1886 Plans
Include Michigan Ave-
nue. ViaduCt.
BENNING ROAD BRIDGE
WIDENING is INSERTED
Total Requested Exceeds by $780,
600 Funds for Improvements
in Present Year.

Appropriation Of S2,42O 900 of Dis
trict gasoline tax revenues for street
and bridge improvements, including
construction of the long-planned
Michigan avenue viaduct, is proposed
in the 1886 estimates of the Highway
Department, made public yesterday by
Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, budget officer.
Capt H. c. WhitehurSt, director Of
highways, also inserted in the eSti-
mates items for widening of the via
duct on Benning road northeast, be-
tween Kenilworth and Minnesota ave-
nues, and items for drafting of plans
for new Pennsylvania avenue bridge
and plans for viaduct at the Frank
lin street railroad crossing.
p. w. A. Work Is Reason.
The total appropriation requested
exceeds by but $3.50, 900 the amount Of
funds for highway improvements car
| ried in the appropriations for the pres
ent fiscal year. The principal reason
given for the comparatively modest
| increase sought in appropriations is
| the amount of work being performed
this year unedr the new grant for
roads from the Public Works Admin
| istration.
The largest single project carried
in the estimates is the Michigan ave-
nue. viaduct, for which an appropria-
ton of $3.50, 900 is sought. The struc-
ture would be constructed over the
tracks Of the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
| road at Michigan avenue, between
Brookland and Perry streets northeast.
One-half the cost of the project
would be assessed against the rail-
road.
A sum of $175,00 is asked for
strengthening and widening the via
duct on Benning road. For drafting
| OF plans for a steel and concrete
bridge to replace the old PennSyl-
vania Avenue Bridge $4,000 is re-
quested and for drawing plans for a
Vladuct over the Baltimore & Ohio
at Franklin street northeast, $4,000.
Funds totaling $685. 900 are requested
Tor repairs to existing bridges.
Other Street Items.
Other general items for street i'm
provementS are: For repairs to streets.
$775,000; grading of streets, alleys
and roads and the building of cul-
verts and retaining walls, $4,000:
surfac1ng OF block pavements, $4,000:
construction of curbs, cutters, shoul-
oers and replacement of roadway
bases, $225,000, and for replacement
of asphalt, granite block and concrete
pavements, 100000.
Out Of the general funds Of the
District the department requests
100000 for Strengthening and WIDEN
ing Of streets and 100000 for assess
ment and permit work on streets.
| Appropriation of $240,000 of the
gasoline tax revenues is asked for
Improvement to 18 streets in various
sections of the District under a pro-
gram of paving, repaving and surfac-
ing work, including curbing and
cutters. The 18 projects listed are:
Eighteenth street northeast, from
Otis street to Bunker Hill road,
$37,400; Fourteenth street, Alaska
Minnesota avenue southeast, PennSyl-
vania avenue to N street, $12,600;
Van Buren, street, from Blair road to
Piney Branch road, 10000; Eastern
avenue, from BladenSburg road to
Rhode Island avenue northeast,
$49,500; Bay street southeast, from
the end of the pavement east of
Eighteenth street to Nineteenth
street, $4,000.
$1,000 for Shepherd Street.
Shepherd street northeast, from
| Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets,
| $1,000; Thirteenth place northeast.
from Shepherd to Taylor streets,
$780, Oglethorpe street, from
Seventh to Eighth streets, $4,000:
QuackenboS street, from Fifth to
Seventh streets, $7,700; Sixth street,
from Van Buren to Whittier streets,
$4,000; Twentieth street northeast,
from Benning road to Gales street,
and Gales street from Twentieth to
Twenty-first streets, So, 800; Twentieth
street northeast, from Quincy street
to Bunker Hill road, $1,000.
South Dakota avenue northeast,
from Twentieth Street to approM-
mately 200 feet north of Quincy street,
$12,100; Quincy street northeast,
Twentieth street to South Dakota
avenue, $4,000: Hemlock street,
Fourteenth to Sixteenth streets,
$4,000; Juniper street, Fourteenth to
Sixteenth streets, $500, and Allison
street, Seventeenth to Eighteenth
streets, $7,700.