Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-13
Committee Suggests
Chance ofU. ). Aid
On Bridge Projects
South Capitol Street
And Potomac Spans
Withheld From BUDGET

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funds might be used In construc-
ton of South Capitol street bridge
over the Anacostia River, and the
proposed span over the Potomac
between the District, at Blue Plains
and Alexandria, Va, was suggested
today by the House Appropriations
Subcommittee, in reporting the
1912 District supply bill
An item of 100000 for the Ana
costa span was knocked out OF the
bill by the subcommittee as it Sug-
gested that it be deferred to await
development of a highway de
Tense plan" On the other hand, the
committee favored a provision au-
thoriZing the Commissioners to
confer with Federal and Virginia
officials on the Potomac crossing
project. Also, the group recon-
mended this project as a Federal
aid highway program.
A highway program which calls
for an outlay of $685., 839 was rec
commended. This would be s814,294
more than 1S41 appropriations, but
$205 900 less than the total pro-
posed by the Budget Bureau. The
subcommittee also diSalloWed $50
900 for construction of, and changes
IN, drainage structures, and $4,000
for temporary paving in newly de-
veloped areas.
, Ideas on Bridge Programs.
) As to the two major bridge pro-
grams, the House was advised:
> "The effect of the reduction in
the item for the South Capitol
street bridge is to eliminate the
entire proposal from the bill. This
action is not due to the fact that
the committee IS opposed to the
project but in the belief that it
should be deferred temporarily until
the recently proposed defense high
way plan has an opportunity to
develop. The committee believes
that this bridge, which would serve
the Naval Air Station and Boiling
Field, would probably be on any
list of national defense projects and
that a portion of the expense
(s4,5O0,00O) may be chargeable to
national defense funds.
ATTACHED to the budget proposal
referred to in the foregoing
paragraph was a provision authoriz-
ing the Commissioners of the Dis
trict to confer with officials of the
Public Roads Administration and
others with reference to vehicular
crossing of the Potomac River
between Alexandria and the south
portion of the District in the vicinity
of Shepherds Landing. The COM
mittee recommends approval of this
plan and has attached the provision
to the item in the bill for Federal
aid highway projects"
The bill contains an item Of $780,
900 for beginning of construction of
the projected grade separation
structure at Fourteenth street and
Maine avenue S.W, and at Four
teenth street and East POTOMAC
drive, which will be financed Jointly
BY the District and the United
States as an item under the Federal
aid road program.
Two Widening Projects.
Two major street widening prof.
ects were specifically listed in the
bill. These are for Sixth street
NV, from D to M streets, estimated
to cost $156,000, and Wisconsin
avenue NV. from r to Thirty
seventh street, estimated to cost
s72,o0o In connection with the
latter project, the Commissioners
were authorized to direct any neces-
sary relocation of streetcar tracks,
the expense of the work to be paid
by the Capital Transit Co.
A long list of items for paving,
repaving and surfacing of streets
was included in the bill as follows:
Northwest.
North Dakota avenue, Blair road
10 Third street, $4,000.
Luzon avenue. Fourteenth to Six
teenth streets. s21, TOO
Fourteenth street, Montague street
10 Fort Stevens drive. s39.500.
Arkansas avenue. Sixteenth to De-
eatur streets, $4,000.
Chevy Chase parkway, 1ngomar
10 Mckinley streets, $50, 800.
Seventh street, Oglethorpe to Pea
body streets, $4,000.
Ninth street, Concord avenue to
Peabody street, $1,000.
Whittier street, Third to Fourth
streets. $500.
Fourth street, Whittier to Van
Buren, streets, $500.
Eastern avenue, Carroll to Laurel
streets, $1,000.
Upshur street, Thirteenth street
10 Arkansas avenue, SIS, 400.
Jocelyn street, Nevada avenue to
200 feet west of Chevy Chase park
way, $4,000.
Jenifer street, Nebraska avenue to
Chevy Chase parkway. $500.
Albemarle street, Connecticut ave-
nue. to Reno road, $24700.
Van Ness street, Massachusetts,
avenue to Forty-ffth street, 15,4O0
Harrison street. Wisconsin to
Western avenues, $25 400.
Warren street, Forty-sixth to
Forty-eighth streets and Forty
eighth street from Warren street to
Massachusetts, $4,000.
Sherrier place. Dana to Weaver
places, and Dana place from Con-
duit road to Sherrier place, $40, 700.
Hobart street, south of Irving
street, $500.
Seventeenth street. from Cres-
cent place to Euclid street, $4,000.
Tunlaw road, north of Calvert
street, $ll,600.
Thirty-ninth street, Calvert to
Edmunds streets, $4,000.
Northeast.
q street, Nineteenth to Twenty
first streets, $1,000.
Franklin street, Rhode Island ave-
nue. to Twentieth street, $4,000.
Tenth street, Monroe street to
Michigan avenue, $4,000.
Fourteenth street, Rhode Island
avenue to Kearney street, $50 800.
3 street, Nineteenth to Twentieth
streets, and Twentieth, B to c
streets, $4,000.