Evening star., 1939-01-05
Grade Separation Item Included
ToEose Southwest Traffic Jams
Highway Figure Approved at S5,1oS,26o;
$2489,620 Allowed Water Department

Funds for Highway and Water
Department services and improve
ments amounting to $7,597 $3.50, or
$971 $50 less than the sum appro-
priated for the current fiscal year,
have been approved by the Budget
Bureau. The District Commission
ers' requests were reduced by some
thing more than 100000 for the
two divisions.
Prospects for another major traffic
engineering project were advanced
with approval of request for $25,-
900 for the preparation of plans for
a grade separation structure in the
line of Fourteenth street from Maine
avenue S.W., to point below the
Outlet Bridge. This is designed to
cure the traffic jams near the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing and
at the exit from East Potomac Park
The highway program also in
cludes list of % major street paw
ing jobs, two major street widening
plans and funds to complete several
large engineering jobs now under
way, but few other new projects Of
any size.
In the water budget are funds to
permit a strengthening of its organ
ization, need for which was cited in
the recent report of the special board
of engineers which made public
utilities appraisal of the whole water
system. Major outlays recommended
in that study, which was headed by
Chairman Riley E. Elgen of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission, are to be
provided for in later years.
S5,108,26O Highway Figure.
The highway budget was approved
by the bureau totals $5,108, ,260, or
about $4,000 less than the Commis-
sioners requested and $770,050 less
than this years appropriations. The
principal reason for the decline was
said to be the fact that this years
appropriations were swelled to an
unusual figure because some of the
new revenues going to the fund, un-
der new revenue acts, were received
too late to be appropriated in the
1888 fiscal year.
A sum of 100000 for continual
ton of construction of the $2000,00
new Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge,
recently begun, was included in the
budget.
The bureau approved an addi-
tional Sl75,OOO to the S125 900 grant,
ed for this year for the construction
of a wide new culvert along the Rock
Greek and Potomac Parkway under
Massachusetts, avenue NV, in order
to remove the present bottle neck
along Rock Creek there. This prof.
ect has not yet been started due to
difficulties in arriving at proper de-
sign for handling the immense
amount of weight in the high hill
side.
S560,000 to Supplement Aid.
An item Of $560000 is included for
grading, paving and other highway
work out of regular District funds
in conjunction with the Federal
Road Aid money granted to the Dis
trict.
Another new item is $4,000 for
the construction of second story
in the Highway Garage, Second and
Bryant streets NV.
Two major repaving jobs listed
were: Seventh street from Constitu-
ton to Independence avenues NV,
$4,000; and Eleventh street NV.
from Rhode Island to Vermont ave-
nues NV, $49,50O
The following street paving jobs
were listed:
Northwest Section.
Tuckerman street, Blair road to
Second place, s45O0.
Gallatii street, New Hampshire
avenue to Third street, $4,000.
Seventh street, Peabody street to
Quackenbos street, $4,000.
Quackenbos street, Seventh street
to Eighth street, $4,000.
Seventh place, Quackenbos street
to Rittenhouse street, $4,000.
Underwood street, Eighth street to
Ninth street, $780,
Seventh place, Underwood street to
Van Buren street, $4,000.
Loughboro road, Glenbrook road
to Conduit road, $68,000
Kennedy street, Kansas avenue to
North Capitol street, $4,000. Y
Northeast Section.
Lincoln road, Rhode Island ave-
nue. to Douglas street, $4,000.
D street, Eighteenth street to
Nineteenth street, $500.
Sixteenth street, G street to D
street, $4,000.
Lyman place, Nineteenth street
west to concrete, $4,000.
Staples street, Neal street to Oates
street, $4,000.
Capitol avenue and Corcoran
street, Mount Olivet road to West
Virginia avenue, $4,000.
Franklin street, Twenty-second
street to Twenty-fourth street,
SO 1000.
Clinton street, Walnut street to
Central avenue, $4,000.
Twenty-sixth street, Newton street
to Perry street, $1D,5OO.
Twenty-fifth plate, Perry street to
Bunker Hill road, $1,000.
Eighteenth street, Irving street to
Rhode Island avenue, $500.
Taylor street, Seventh street to
Tenth street, $16,200
Evarts street, Thiru street to Sixth
street, $4,000.
Douglas street, Lincoln road to
Third street, $4,000.
Montana avenue, Seventeenth
street to Rhode Island avenue, $45,-
900.
South Dakota avenle, Eighteenth
street to Michigan avenue, $35,000.
Southeast Section.
Thirty-third street, Alabama ave-