Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Metropolitan Area
improvement Tour
Is Set for Monday
Prince Georges Unit
To Visit Sections
Requesting Projects

The Advisory Committee ap-
pointed to make recommendations
under the terms of the 100000
improvements program for the Met
ropolitan Area of Prince Georges
County Md will make a tour OF
certain areas seeking improvement
at am Monday morning.
Meeting at the County Service
Building in Hyattsville yesterday,
the committee also planned to re-
quest the county commissions to
hold a joint strategy meeting next
week with a three-fold purpose;
first. to obtain services of an en-
gineer to guide the committee in
making its recommendations; sec
ond, to ascertain the constitution
atty of the improvements bill, and
third to obtain funds to establish
working organization.
After hearing several requests
from various communities and Or
CARNATIONS, committee members de-
cided their tour on Monday will in
clude Seat Pleasant, the area on
Queens Chapel road at the entrance
to the District of Columbia and
the area near the University Park
School, with a view toward consid-
ering requested improvements in all
three sections.
Five Seat Pleasant Items.
The Seat Pleasant request in
Guided five items:
l. Elimination of the Dangerous"
wooden bridge at the intersection of
Chapel road and Roosevelt avenue
and the grading of Chapel road
and Roosevelt avenue level with the
grade of the old Washington, Bal
timore and Annapolis Electric Rail
way. The bridge has been a source
of contention for many years as
traffic hazard.
2. Purchase and grading of land
for park and playground adjacent
to the Seat Pleasant School.
3. Improvement of the lighting
along Chapel road from the Dis
trict line to Roosevelt avenue.
a. Improvement of the lighting in
the area between Chapel road and
Central avenue.
5. Widening and resurfacing of
the shoulders of Chapel road.
The request was sent to the COM
mittee by the Seat Pleasant Citi-
zens' Association, which pointed
out it had the backing of local
Legion and Veterans of Foreign
Wars posts.
Queens Chapel Request.
A request from the Queens Chapel
Citizens Association seeks purchase
of property at the intersection of
Queens Chapel and La Sale roads
and to provide "a safe entrance to
La Sale road and to the proposed
Fort Drive" The request also seeks
the purchase of small pieces of
property to create an entrance from
Queens Chapel road into Thirteenth
street and center street lighting of
Queens Chapel road from the Dis
trict line to Chillum road.
The committee also received a re-
quest from the trustees of the Uni
versity Park School seeking i'm
provements on a portion of Rush
road leading from University drive
to the school.
The Mayor and town council of
Brentwood asked certain drainage
improvements. 1t was claimed that
Mount Rainier is dumping her
drainage water down on us" which
results in the flooding of certain
properties and streets in the town
after a heavy rainfall. The latter
also requested the opening up of
Prospect avenue to form a link be-
tween the Observation-Disclosures
boulevard and Rhode Island avenue
to Columbia avenue in Hyattsville
The widening of the overpass at
Eldridge avenue and Barney street
and the improvement of Bartlett
Park were also suggested. Another
request was received from the
Maryland Park Citizens Associa-
ton.
The committee was given no esti-
mates as to the cost of the projects
nor details concerning the improve
ments.