Evening star., 1940-08-22
14th and Maine
Project Listed
In Street Budget
4,353,54 TotoI
Sought; Work Planned
On IS Streets

OoSuAg WIN s0SssSo
On IS Streets
Highway Director H. c. White
hurst submitted to the Commis-
sioners today 1912 budget estimates
totaling $4,353,540 calling for i'm
provement Of IS streets and begin
ming Of construction on a grade
separation at Fourteenth street and
Maine avenue S.W.
The total represents an increase OF
SALT, 800 over current appropriations.
In addition, the estimates call for
the widening of Wisconsin avenue
between r and Thirty-seventh street
NV. and Sixth street between D
and M streets NV. The latter
project will cost $l56, 900 and is de-
signed to relieve heavy traf1lc con-
gestion.
Capt. Whitehurst requested $780,
600 for the grade separation project
describing the intersection as per
haps the most congested" in the
District.
Danger In Delay Emphasized.
''Traf1c, highway and planning
otdcials consider this project as most
important and necessary" he said,
"in fact, have expressed the opinion
that further delay will undoubtedly
result in most serious situation"
Because the structure is on Fed
eral route l. Capt. Whitehurst ex-
planned, Federal aid funds are avail
able for the main structure. His
estimate, he said, is for a low level
bridge and the necessary approach
roads to such a bridge. The en-
tire project can be financed over
q period of two years.
Recent traffic counts, it was said,
reveal that even on q normal week.
day 81 900 vehicles pass through the
area. During periods of extensive
use Of Potomac Park, traffic Is so
congested that it frequently takes
from Is to 20 minutes to clear the
intersection after crossing the High
way Bridge. With the opening OF
the new airport and the Jefferson
Memorial, traffic is expected to be
even more acute.
Streets Slated for Improvement.
The Northwest and Northeast Sec
tions get the bulk of the $3.50, 900
street-improvement program. Streets
slated for Improvements are:
Northwest:
North Dakota avenue, Blair road
to Third street, $4,000; Luzon
avenue, Fourteenth to Sixteenth
streets, $21,7oo: Fourteenth street,
Montague street to Fort Stevens
drive, $39, 500; Arkansas avenue,
Sixteenth to Decatur streets, $62,-
800; Chevy Chase parkway, 1ngomar
to Mckinley streets, $30,600; Sew
enth street, Oglethorpe to Peabody
streets, 5000; Ninth street, Concord
avenue to Peabody street, $1,000;
Whittier street, Third to Fourth
streets, $500; Fourth street, Whit
tier to Van Buren streets, 5000:
Eastern avenue, Carroll to Laurel
streets, $500; Upshur street, Thir-
teenth street to Arkansas avenue,
SIS 400; Jocelyn street, Nevada ave-
nue. to Chevy Chase parkway, $4,000; ;
Jenifer street, Nebraska avenue to
Chevy Chase parkway, $500; Abe
marie street, Connecticut avenue to
Reno road, $24, 700; Van Ness street
Massachusetts, avenue to Forty fifth
street, SIS, 400; Harrison street, Wis
consin to Western avenues, $25, 400;
Warren street, Forty-sixth street to
Forty eighth streets, and Forty
eighth street, Warren street to Mas
sachusettS avenue. $4,000; Sherrier
place, Dana to Weaver places, and
Dana place, Conduit road to Shef-
rier place, $20,700; Hobart street
south of Irving street, $500; Sev-
enteenth street, Crescent place to
Euclid street, $4,000; Tunlaw road
north Of Calvert street, $l1,600;
Thirty-ninth street. Calvert to Ed
munds streets, $14,300.
Northeast:
East Capitol street, Central ave-
hue to Fifty-fifth street, $4,000;
East Capitol street, Eighteenth to
Nineteenth streets, $4,000; c street,
Nineteenth to Twenty-f1rst streets
$19,400; Franklin street, Rhode
Island avenue to Twentieth street
$27,S00; Tenth street. Monroe street
to Michigan avenue, $4,000; Four
teenth street, Rhode Island avenue
to Kearney street, 30,300; B street,
Nineteenth to T Twentieth streets, and
Twentieth street, B to c streets,
$4,000; Twenty-fifth place, Ben
ming road to E street, 10000; Nine
teenth street, E street to Benning
road. $l0,500; Sixteenth street,
Oates to Lewis streets, $7,400; Hol-
brook street, Oates to Lewis
streets, and Lewis street, Holbrook
to Staple streets, $500; Penn street,
Montello avenue eastward, $500;
Holbrook terrace, Montello avenue
eastward, $780, Raum street, West
Virginia to Trinidad avenues,
S17,300; Simms place, Montello to
Trinidad avenues, $10,700; Central
avenue, Carlton to Clinton avenues,
$500; Shepherd street, Bunker
Hill road to Twenty-fourth street,
t7,400; Twenty-second street, Bun
ker Hill road to Upshur street,
S9,700; Third street, T to v streets,
$500; U street, Third to Fourth
streets, $500; Kennedy street,
North Capitol to First streets,
$4,000; Longfelow street, New
Hampshire avenue to First street
$500; Third street, M street to
Florida avenue, $13,600; Todd place,
Third to Fourth streets, $500.
Southwest:
Nichols avenue, South Capitol to
Chesapeake streets, $50, 900.
Southeast:
Pennsylvania avenue, Alabama
avenue to Fort Davis street, $4,000;
Naylor road, r to Twenty-fifth
streets, $4,100; Thirty-first street.
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