Evening star., 1941-03-23
NewSoutheast
Traffic Artery
Defense Link
$500, 900 Roadway
Will Skirt Boiling
Field, Air Station
MAP on Page B-2.J

traffic artery from Anacostia Park
near the Eleventh Street Bridge.
along Firth Stirling avenue and
South Capitol street Sc. to the Dis
trict line, will be started soon as a
part of program of highway work
costing s1,158,000, Highway Director
H. c. Whitehurst announced yes
terday.
This and a number of other prof.
ects included in the program were
related to the national defense work
here. The new highway, which for
the most part will be a dual road
of 24-foot lanes, will skirt Boil
ing Field and the Naval Air Station
and will connect with the road to
Indianhead, Md, where the Navy
has powder plant.
District officials announced yester-
day they had just received approval
by the Public Roads Administration
of this project. They said if actual
contract work were started July /.
the new road might be completed
early in November.
Paving to Start Tuesday.
Paving of Massachusetts, avenus
NV. from California street to Wis
consin avenue, including the road
way of the south half of the new
Massachusetts Avenue Bridge over
Rock Creek, now nearing compile
ton, will be started Thursday as
one OF the major spring projects,
Capt. Whitehurst said.
In anticipation of congressional
approval of the first deficiency bill.
which provides s25O,O0O for low-cost
roads, to be built mostly in the
Northeast and Southeast sections.
the District has taken bids for these
improvements, considered necessary
because of the mushroom growth OF
housing in these areas to provide
quarters for defense workers. The
bill now is awaiting the signature
of President Roosevelt.
The new AnacoStia highway will
serve to relieve traffic congestion at
! Good Hope road and Nichols ave-
| nue. Sc. and along these and other
Southeast streets. The project has
been made possible at this time by
! the use of Federal road aid money,
which is apportioned to the District.
as well as to the States, on match
| ing money basis For this year the
| District has been allotted S565 900,
and matching money is included in
the pending 1912 District budget.
awaiting action in the House.
w. p. A. to Do Grading.
The first steps will be the grading
and drainage work. made possible
by cooperation of the Distric,
w. P. A, which will assign men to
this work. This is TO be started
within a month, Capt. Whitehurst
said. About the same time, the
w. P. A. will begin construction OF
temporary roadway in Anacostia
Park, near Anacostia River, from
the Eleventh Street Bridge, to sweer
around and connect with Howard
road. 1t will go east on Howard
road to Firth Sterling avenue. Thi
fits in with plans now under con-
sideration for construction of a nev
bridge over the Anacostia River OF
the line of South Capitol street
which would be connected with th
park road and the new AnacoSti;
road.
The highway would be opened
along the line of Firth Sterling ave
nue. and South Capitol street from
Howard road to Nichols avenue Sc.
then along South Capitol street L
the District line, as it appears ol
the highway plan. There also wi
be developed a new roadway alon
the line of Overlook avenue, fron
South Capitol street to the inter
section of Fourth and Chesapeak
streets SW., which leads towar
the Naval Research Laboratory.
Maryland May Improve Link.
This, again, will serve as a lin
in a major connection to the vicinit
of Shepherds Landing on the Po
tomac River. if and when it is De
cided to build new bridge owe
the Potomac to or near Alexandria,
The entire new Firth Stirling
South Capitol street project, in
cluding the temporary road in Ana
costa Park, will run to about fou
and a half miles, Capt Whitehurs
said. At the District line it woul
connect with Maryland State ros
No. 224 District officials have bee
advised Maryland has a projeC
pending to widen and improve thi
n; RI
Repaving of Massachusetts, ave
nue. will cost some $175,000
This work will be started at Cali
fornia street. When the south hal
of the new bridge over Rock Cree
is paved and opened to traffic, tn
detour trestle to the north of tn
span will be razed to permit com
pletion of the north half. Trafn
officials now are considering al
rangements for handling traffic owe
the half-completed bridge.
Roadway Under Bridge.
The District also will spend som
$4,000 for the construction of dus
roadway under the new Massachu
sets avenue bridge There will b
bride path next to the creek.
Another project which will cos
$4,000 will be the widening an
paving of South E street betwee
Twenty first and Twenty secon
streets NV, and improvement {
Twenty-f1rst street between Vii
ginia avenue and c street N w
A $4,000 project calls for re
paving and widening of Blair roa
and North Capitol street NV
between Peabody and Aspen street
This is to be started Tuesday.
Another project. to be starte
soon, is the paving of Utah avenu
INV. from Nebraska avenue to tn