Evening star., 1939-02-22
Millions Requested
For Nearby Highways
By Commission
$54,392,000 Program
For Maryland Given
To State Assembly
BY JACK ALLEN,
Star Stan Correspondent.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. pa
breakdown Of the $54 1892, 900 high
way program set up by the State
Roads Commission for DEVELOPMENT
during the next five years today
disclosed a vast number of the i'm
provements will be made in the Ma
tional Capital area.
Virtually every one of the arterial
highways spreading out fan fashion
from the District of Columbia and
many secondary thoroughfares in
the same section will undergo con-
struction or reconstruction under the
schedule the commission has sub
mitted to the State Assembly.
Twenty projects are listed for
Prince Georges County alone under
the $5,623.0O0 the commission ex-
poets to eXpend in that community
representing more than 10 per cent
of the total program.
% Montgomery Projects.
Embodied in Montgomery's 81
856,000 schedule are % projects, and
the detailed report before legisla-
tors today revealed that provisions
are made for the widely advocated
work along Old Georgetown road
near Bethesda, project advocates
feared had been lost.
1t also learned that appropria- =
tions proposed for the neighboring
counties of Frederick, Charles. CAL
vert and Anne Arundel embody pro-
visions for improving extensions of
highways running through Mont
gomery and Prince Georges.
The commission also suggested
that appropriations be made for
work on roads and streets which it
maintains in certain communities OF
the two counties bordering Wash
ington.
The sum of s2,64s, 900 would be
spent on Defense highway, includ-
ing $1,560,000 for work between
Bladensburg and Priests Bridge in
Prince Georges and $1,088.OO0 be-
tween Bargis Corner and Parole, in
Anne Arundel County. with a g.
mile bypass to carry traffic around
Annapolis to the Severn River
Bridge.
s226.000 for Connecticut Avenue.
In the program also is $1,000 900
for the Marlboro pike, $4,000 for
the Baltimore Washington boule-
ward, s525 900 for the Grain high
way. s1.738.OO0 for the Rockville
Frederick pike. s226,O00 for Con-
necticut avenue in Montgomery
s5o000 for Old Georgetown road
and 100000 for extending Sixteenth
street from its present terminus to
the Seventh Street pike beyond
Silver Spring
The various projects which would
improve highways in the Washing
ton area, together with the recon-
mended Improvements and proposed
expenditures, follow:
| Prince GEORGES County.
| Grain highway-Prests Bridge 10 Well,
| corner widen ard resurface 3 3 miles
Grain. hishway-wells Corner TO Groom,
os rosd, % miles, concrete and bridges
o Grain hiehway-croome road TO T B.
miles. widen and resurface; s1o0o0O
lne Heeo to ooUp Upper Marlboro 10 miles, concrete
District OF Columbia line to T. B. I.
Defense Bladensbure Il
Priests Bridge. l45 miles construct onl
sre saract 10. ex5sne raa hHhwsy 20 miles
locate with concrete BRIDGES Washiil ot on
Baltimore and ANNAPOLIS Electric Railway
Baltimore and Ohio Railway Pennsylvania
hiahwav aWs si.5sd shq a1%sen' eoo River at crair
Mnntgomery road-Laurel toward Burt
rssnrfscs nnSvle - miles widen relocate ane
- s,-d miles widen. relocate and resurface
ovd4 Landogsr gdogs for Land
and n,.1r;d. grade elimins ton. see5 900
5p;ag. ppad at {, oed oedar Hill Cemetery replace
LIVINGSTON ,road-;oxon Hill TO Charlie.
| S1O5.OOO N 1~''' '"ee
9. Croome road extension-1 mile. gravel
Rhode Island. avenue-Baltimore-w
ington boulevard toward District of Colum
bia line, 15 miles. concrete. widen
., Extend University drive and Aser roae
Branch Ins inch; Anacostia. oe mile bridge ane
line via W. B, and A R r. 1870 miles
surlaee' Naes M single lane ss20,o0o.
miies grading, drainage and surfacing
d, ranehvllle.overhead crossing grad.
| summation and approaches $3.50. 900
=, re-Washngton boulevard to New
Hampshire am % avenue-3 miles concrete
Grade separation at Baltimore Washing.
kenilworth--Relocation, 500 900.
| Montgomery County
construct and reiocate' si1sooo miles re-
hr;Tna fTTedes,ck Ss oop pike at Rock creek-Wider
Era Bpansh ndn o5 mile. bridge and approaches
w6iqe G9esv!,f oat ms. e
olney to Brookeviue-2 miles reconstruct
ana esG,s% rHioeate, %a .,s s5o'Qno;
| $1O.OnO
IL Lewisdsle to Green Valley Hyattstown
Old Georeetown d"' road. Route "o. $40. to
sIo Alta ooo vista-a miles, RECONSTRUCTION
Falls road-Rockville to Potomac 5.s
to Fiys5 Hyss,er roadaDstret ID Of Columbia line
Bradley rosaoRiver road to Leland
TeIeeate Tefees 81 s11aoGo anss widen resurface and
reconstruct and relocate $4,000
l., connecticut avenue-District OF Colum
pa me TO CHEVY Chase. g miles. concrete
dual highway: Chevy Chase to Kensington
81 miles sSo construct % one lane for dual high
- Old Bladensburg road-seek's Corner te
Kensington, 5.5 miles, reconstruction
| S113.O0O
Frederick pike-Rockville to Frederick
| county line. $50 miles construct one
lane for dual highway: Rockville te
itrSn, rtTsderick ,a County line Is miles: recon.
struct existing roadway, 81 .0bO, 600.
- Blair road-F1ower avenue to New
Hampshire avenue. 25 miles. widen anG
New Hampshire avenue-Prince Georges
County line to White Oak 2 6 miles. con.
| crete. S156 OOO Wi
Forest Glen road-End M-3Os-1- East