Evening star., 1941-01-08
Roads Program
Of S4,536,
Asked in Budget
Sturt on CIoverleuf
At 18th St. and Maine
Ave. Included

A broad program of highway i'm.
provements designed to relieve traffic
congestion in the District is pro.
vided in the 1912 budget. A tota
outlay of S4,536,l00 was proposed
an increase of $464, ,480 over this
year.
The major construction project i;
q grade-separation structure to bt
erected along Fourteenth street from
above Maine avenue S.W. to be.
low the outlet from East Potomac
drive which will include a new low
level bridge over the outlet of tn,
Tidal Basin. For beginning th1
work $25O,00O is recommended.
Total cost of the grade-separation
structure, while not stated in the
budget report, is expected to be
S1250,000. The first cost of S250,00
to be appropriated in the next fiscal
year, would provide for construc-
tion of the new outlet bridge and for
approaches to the main traffic
structure, which would be borne by
the District. The remainder, 81 ,000,-
900, it is expected, would come ou
of the Districts Federal-aid road
grants.
$4,000 for Bridge Study.
Another headline item in the
Highway Department program is ar
appropriation of $4,000 for an en-
gineering study of proposed bridge
or tunnel for venicular crossing
of the Anacostia River on the line
of South Capitol street. In addition,
the Commissioners are directed to
confer with officials of the State
of Virginia, city of Alexandria and
the United States Public Roads Ad-
ministratlon on the feasibility of
constructing another bridge or tun-
mel for the Potomac River from
Shepherds Landing, D. c., to Alex
andria.
Two street-widening projects are
authorized: Sixth street from D to
M streets NV, at cost of S156,000
and Wisconsin avenue from R to
Thirty-seventh streets NV, at a
cost of $4,000.
The Budget Bureau also approved
a large scale of street improvements
recommended by both the Com
missioners and Highway Director H.
c.. Whitehurst. which calls for the
resurfacing of SIS streets in all
sections of the city.
Construction of the grade separa-
ton structure has been considered
for several years as means of re-
moving serious traffic bottle-neckS
at Fourteenth street and Maine
avenue and at the outlet from East
Potomac Park. 1t would be a mod
ified Glover leaf" Funds for the
preparation Of preliminary studies
were contained in the 1910 Appro-
priation Act.
Cites Congestion in Area.
Capt. Whitehurst in recommend
ing Budget Bureau approval of the
item for beginning construction of
the project, described the Four
teenth and Maine avenue inter-
section as perhaps the most con-
gested in the District. Recent
traffic counts, he said, showed that
even on the normal week day 81 900
vehicles passed through the area.
During periods of extensive use of
Potomac Park, it was found, traffic
was so congeSted that it frequently
took from Is to 20 minutes to clear
the intersection after crossing the
Highway Bridge. With the opening
of the new Washington National
Airport and the Jefferson Memorial
traffic Is expected to be even more
acute.
This project is planned to be
financed under the Districts Federal
aid road program, under which the
District, like the States, receives
annual grants from the Public
Roads Administration for highway
work related to the national system
The major street improvement
projects were listed as follows:
Northwest.
North Dakota avenue, Blair road
TO Third street, $4,000; Luzon ave-
nue., Fourteenth street to Sixteenth
street, $21,700; Fourteenth street
Montague street to Fort Stevens
drive, S39,50O; Arkansas avenue,
Sixteenth street to Decatur street
s62,8OO; Chevy Chase parkway, In
gomar street to Mckinley street
$4,000; Seventh street, Oglethorpe
street to Peabody street, $4,000;
Ninth street, Concord avenue tC
Peabody street, $1,000; Whittier
street, Third street to Fourth street
$4,000; Fourth street, Whittier street
to Van Buren street, 5000; Eastern
avenue, Carroll street to Laurel
street, $1,000; Upshur street, Thir-
teenth street to Arkansas avenue
$15,400; Jocelyn street, Nevada ave-
nue. to approximately 200 feet west
of Chevy Chase parkway, $4,000;
Jenifer street, Nebraska avenue tc
Chevy Chase parkway, S8,100; Abe
marie street, Connecticut avenue tc
Reno road, $24,700; Van Ness street
Massachusetts, avenue to Forty-fiftf
street, s15,400; Harrison street te
w lSCOL1OlIl dNC1loC w VCoOCII
avenue, $25, 400; Warren street, For.
ty-sixth street to Forty-eighth street
and Warren street to Massachusetts
avenue, $4,000; Sherrier place
Dana place to Weaver place, anc
Dana place, Conduit road to Sherriel
place, $20,700; Hobart street, south
of Irving street, $500; Seventeenth
street, Crescent place to Euclic
street, $4,000; Tunlaw road, north
to Calvert street, $11,600; Thirty.
ninth street, Calvert street to Ed.
munds street, $14,3O0.
Northeast.
G street, Nineteenth street II
Twenty-first street, $19,400; Frank
lin street, Rhode Island avenue Il
Twentieth street, $27,8OO; Tentl
street, Monroe street to Michigan
avenue, $4,000; Fourteenth street
Rhode Island avenue to Kearne,
street, $4,000; B street, Nineteenth
street to Twentieth street, ant
Twentieth street, B street to G street
S1O,6OO; Twenty-f1fth place, Bennin
road to E street, $4,000; Nineteenth
street, E street to Benning roac
$10,500; Sixteenth street, Gate
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