Evening star., 1937-09-09
$2O,O00,00O d. c. Program
To Aid Traffic Is AduOcdted
Capt. Whitehurst Asks Commissioners to
Adopt Fiue-Year Plm-WOuld
Use ENLARGED Fund.

drive, 100000, opening of Prospect
avenue from Twenty-ninth street to
Wisconsin avenue and improvement
to Foxhall road connection, $500 600;
grade separation at Minnesota and
pennsylvania avenues southeast,
S275, 900; development of Potomac
avenue between Foxhall road and the
District line, no estimate now avail
able; construction of underpass for
Fourteenth street through the Mall
area, to permit passage of Mall roads
over Fourteenth street, $1,000 900,
presumably at Federal expense; SINH
lar underpaSs for Twelfth street in
Mall area, 81 100000, presumably at
Federal expense; grade separation at
Florida and New York avenues north
east, including lexington place, no
present estimate; grade separation at
Florida avenue and Thirteenth street.
no present estimate; and highway
changes in area of Seventh and Ninth
streets, New York and Massachusetts,
avenues, no present estimate.
Bridge Estimate $4,000, 900.
The proposed new Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge is estimated to cost
s2,000,000. For 1889, Capt. White
hurst proposes a starting appropria-
ton of S650,000; similar sum for
the next year, and to complete the
project in 1941, 100000.
Other bridge work proposed by
Capt. Whitehurst, for which no
definite time is scheduled are: Re-
placement of K street bridge over
Rock Greek, $4,000; replacement of
the Twentieth street bridge over
Piney Branch, 100000; widening
and strengthening of the Sixteenth
street bridge over Military road, $685.
600; replacement of Klingle bridge
over Rock Greek, $4,000: replace
ment of Pierce Mill bridge over Rock
Greek, $4,000; widening of Four
teenth street outlet bridge, 500, 900;
construction of a new bridge over
Anacostic River at South Capitol
street, s1,750,000; and replacement
and strengthening of ten small bridges
at total cost of $4,000.
Thirty-three street. widening prof.
ects are listed by Capt. Whitehurst,
which would cost $3,516, TOO in all, as
follows:
K street, Twelfth street to Connec-
ticut avenue, S121, 100; Twelfth street,
New York avenue to Massachusetts,
avenue, $46 900; Twelfth street, Con-
stitution avenue to Independence ave-
nue., S84,500; New York avenue, Four
teenth street to Fifteenth street (north
side), $4,000; Florida avenue north
east, New York avenue to West Vir-
ginia avenue, $157, 700: Seventh street.
Constitution avenue to Independence
avenue, $4,000; West Virginia avenue
northeast, Mount Olivet road to Flor
ida avenue, $4,000.
Independence avenue, Second street
southeast to Maryland avenue south
west, SITS, 800; Fifteenth street. Mas
sachusetts avenue to Rhode Island
avenue, $4,000; Fifteenth street, New
York avenue to Vermont avenue, S72,-
300; Thirteenth street, Logan Circle
to Florida avenue, S161, 200; Eleventh
street, Massachusetts, avenue to Rhode
Island avenue, $115,200; Water street
southwest, Twelfth street to Four
teenth street (South side), S65.OOO.
Twenty-second street, PENNSYLVANIA
avenue to Massachusetts avenue, S149,-
500; K street, Ninth street to Twelfth
street, $4,000; Twelfth street, Massa-
chusetts avenue to Rhode Island ave-
nue., S73,100; Sixth street, Indiana
avenue to New York avenue, s146. 500;
seventeenth street, I street to Massa-
chusetts avenue, $4,000
E street, Nineteenth street to Vir-
ginia avenue, $49 400; M street. Con-
nectlcut avenue to New Hampshire
avenue, $4,000; Thirteenth street,
Monroe street to Spring road, s44,-
500; D street and Maryland avenue
southwest, Ninth street to Twelfth
street, $4,000; Twelfth street south
west, D street to Water street. SAT-
600; I street, New York avenue to
Seventeenth street, $4,000; Eleventh
street, Rhode Island avenue to Florida
avenue, $170,800; Sixth street. New
York avenue to Rhode Island avenue,
Sl47.00o; Tenth street, New York
avenue to Rhode Island avenue, $119,-
500; Eleventh street southwest. Vir-
ginia avenue to D street, $4,000; r
street, New York avenue to Massa-
chusetts avenue, $83, 500; Seventeenth
street, Massachusetts, avenue to
Florida avenue. including connection |
to Columbia road, s247,5OO; Tenth
street, Rhode Island avenue to Florida
avenue, Sl24,200; Twelfth street, |
Rhode Island avenue to Florida ave-
nue., $4,000; North Capitol street,
Massachusetts avenue to Florida
avenue. $2S2,700