The Washington times., 1938-03-17
S4,2OO,OOO SET.
FOR D. C. STREET
WORK IN 1888
Many Projects Planned
To Speed Up Traffic

Approximately $4,000 900. equal
to q little less than one.tenth Of It's
total expenditures, will be spent
by the District during the fiscal
year beginning July / next for
street improvements.
Many Of them, including down
town street. widening and four
major projects in the form Of a
bridge, underpass, tunnel and
grade separation improvement, are
designed to speed UP the move
ment Of traffic at points Of great
est congestion.
BRIDGE FUND @
OF the total, 81, $50, 900 Is to be
spent on the Thomas Circle un-
derpass, the K Street grade sep.
aration, Potomac Parkway tunnel
and Pennsylvania Avenue bridge.
The bridge appropriation Of $780,.
900 Is only q start on q two-mtllton-
dollar total to be expended on this
Improvement, providing q larger
and more ornamental connection
between the city proper ana the
area across the Anacostia River.
HALF q million is to be spent on
new street paving projects. an
other half.million on widening
several streets, and million more
on repairs and resurfacing OF ex'
isting streets.
Street, paving projects were IL
nally approved as follows:
NORTHWEST ~
Streets to be widened:
K street, Twelfth Street to Connsctt'
Eleventh Street, Massachusetts, Ave
nue. 70 Rhode Island Ayenue.
twelfth Street, New York Avenue to
Massachusetts, Avenue.
New York Avenue, Fourteenth street
70 Fifteenth Street (north side.)
Twelfth Street west, Constitution Ave
nue. north to Independence Avenue south.
Streets to be paved:
Forty-sixth Street, MaSsachusettS ave
IOrehboro Road. Indian Lane to Glen
Runnynede Place, Broad Branch Road
to approximately. $50 feet sastward.
calvert Street, Thirty-ninth Street to
Eorty-first Street.
Tunlaw Road, Thirty-seventh Street
to W Place. and " Place, Tunlaw Road
Blair Road. Peabody Street to Aspen
Street.
Kennedy Street. Kansas Avenue TO
Tnhsrt p,Scs fifth streat to ceorria
FarraEut Street. Third Street to Fourth
Street.
oaUatiR Street. First Street TO New
Aaren street, Blair Road to Laurel
Street.
ternut Street to Dahlia Street.
Quintana Place. Fifth Street to Seventh
Street.
whittier Street, Fourteenth Street to
UpsRur Street Street, sixteenth Street to
Seventesnth Street.
NORTHEAST
G Street, Sixteenth Street to Nine
Geenth Street. double roadway.
North Carolina Avenue. Fifteenth
Street 70 sixteenth Street.
Neal Street, Bladensburg Road 70
Maryland Avenue.
Lang Place, BladenSburg Road to
Seventeenth Street.
Lyman Place, BladenBburg Road to
Eeventeenth Street.
Oates street. Biadensburg Road to
Trinidad Avenue.
Queen Street. Holbrook Terrace to
Montello Avenue.
Trinidad Avenue, Childress Street to
Raum Street.
Newton Street, Twenty-sixth Street. to
Twenty-eighth Street.
Randolph Street, Twentieth Street to
Twenty-fourth Street.
Shepherd Street, Eighteenth Street to
Twentieth Street, $16,500.
SOUTHEAST
Branch Avenue, Denver Street to Dis
trict Of Columbia Line.
Nichols Avenue Upsal to South Capt.
tol Street and South Capitol Street.
Nichols Avenue to Atlantic Street.
Thirty-first Place, v Place to Ala
bGma Avenue.
Thirty-second Street. v Place to Ala
bama Avenue.
Thirty-second Street, Alabama Avenue
70 Denver Street.
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