Evening star., 1935-07-19
ARLINGTON PARLEY
ION ROADS CALLED
TO SAVE AIRPORT.
Civic Groups Will Confer on
System of Highway Ap-
proacheS to D. G.
ROTARY-TRAFFIC CIRCLE
AMONG NEW PROPOSALS
Bypass Will Be Studied-Colum-
bia Pike to Be Put in Pri.
mary Glass.

Representatives of all Arlington
County civic organizations will be
called together early next week to
agree on details of system OF high
way approaches to Washington, one Of
the important features Of which will
make possible the preservation OF
Washington Airport.
The meeting will be preliminary to
a public hearing before the Arlington
County Board, which will be re-
quested as soon as details Of the pro-
posed road program are worked out.
The essential features of the new
program we're announced yesterday by
a group of representatives of three
Arlington County civic bodies.
Traffic Circle Proposed.
Further details OF the plan were
worked out at an informal meeting
last night at the home of Horace L.
Woodward, Arlington Ridge delegate
and member of the l0-Year Plan
Committee. At this meeting it was
decided to include a rotary traffic
circle at the intersection of three pro-
posed new roads near the present
intersection of Military road and
Columbia pike. The three new roads
meeting at this circle would provide
a Washington Airport bypass to United
States Route No. l. a connection with
the Arlington Memorial Bridge and a
connection with u. S. No. at Virginia
Highlands and an extension to the
Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard
near that point.
be made to work out difficulties in the
path of an allotment OF Federal aid
road funds for the widening of Colum-
bia Pike and the possible diversion Of
Part of these funds for the grading
and paving of substitute road
around Washington Airport to per-
nit the closing of Military road. The
Military road substitute also would
serve as a substitute road for passen-
ger car traffic now using the section of
Columbia Pike through the industrial
area adjacent to U. S. No. and
Washington Airport.
Road CompIicates Issue.
1t was pointed out today that the
Columbia Pike widening program
which it is hoped may hold the key
to solution Of the Washington Airport
problem. is complicated by the fact
that Columbia Pike in Arlington
To de kNtnf ic l1-
secondary route in Fairfax County
and for this reason not eligible tor
Federal aid
Arrangements will be made to have
Columbia Pike put into the primary
class and made eligible for Federal
aid and efforts also will be made to
push the fight at Richmond for a
Federal aid program for this highway.
Legal difficulties also must be over
come before the transfer of a part
of the Columbia pike fund for de-
velopment of the new Washington
Airport bypass can be undertaken, it
was pointed out.
Figures Presented.
At last nights meeting G. A.
Collier, president of the Arlington
Citizens Association and also presi-
dent of the Columbia Pike Improve
ment Association, both of which are
behind the new highway plan. pre-
sented traffic count figures which
showed an average of 1000 passenger
cars and 1000 trucks using Columbia
pike daily throughout the year at
the Arlington National Cemetery in
terSection. This average is greater
by as much as 125 per cent at sea-
sons of the year. he said. Washington
Boulevard has almost as much traffic,
he said, and the Arlington Ridge road
has about half this volume. All these
totals have been increased consid-
erably since the count was made
nearly two years ago, he said, and are
continuing to increase rapidly.