The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-25
POSTWAR PROJECTS TO
AFFORD MILLIONS OF HOURS OF
WORK
Road Construction Will Boost
Employment BY 5s,97O, 900 Work
Hours

Hours
Postwar Construction projects
for which immediate preparation OF
plans was recommended by the Com
mittee on Public Activities of the
MARYLAND Commission on Postwar
Reconstruction and Development =,
will provide an estimated 58,97O,OOO
work hours, tremendous contribu-
ton toward the solution of the en-
ployment problem of the postwar
era, Governor Herbert r. OConor
has made known.
This new pledge" of broad-scale
employment for the States workers
Is in addition to the man-hours to be
provided by the more than 100000
600 of public construction projects
previously approved by the Postwar
Commission, and for which archi-
tects have been assigned.
The projects approved by the Com
mittee and included in the recon-
mendations for immediate planning
are the Baltimore Harbor Bridge and
the approach free-way highways, to-
gether with the Halethorpe grade
elimination, as recommended by the
State Roads Commission. The recon-
mendations for immediate initiation
of the preliminary planning We're
approved unanimously by the Com
mission on Postwar Reconstruction
and Development.
Estimates on the Harbor Bridge
The Governor declared, are that 1t
will produce 100000 on-site work
hours and 18,25O,00O off-site work
hours and II, 100000 off-site hours.
The approach free-way from the
,ridge to West Elkridge is expected
to afford the same amount as the
Franklin Street approach, while the
dalethorpe grade elimination will,
t is anticipated, provide $4,000 on
lite work hours and 100000 off-site
work hours.
Estimated costs of the various
projects, as prepared by the state
loads Commission, place the Baltl-
nore- washington connection to the
Bridge at $S,00O,O00; the Harbor
Bridge itself, $12,500,00O; the Bal
imore Washington free-way connec-
ion to Franklin Street at $S,0OO,O0O
and the Halethorpe grade crossing
elimination at 100000. The cost of
The Baltimore Washington connec-
ion will include construction of this
,ree-way highway to point on the
present Baltimore Washington boule-
Yard near West Elkridge.
Likewise, the Governor m a d
xnown, the State Roads Commission
estimates that the $S,00O,OOO tenta-
lively set for the free-way to connect
with Franklin Street will provide ex-
tension of that project to the Jes-
ups Road near Fort Meade, from
which location, it is understood, the
federal Public Roads Administration
planning to continue the free-way
nto Washington with Federal funds.
This section of the project will
,rovide a convenient and direct con-
lection for traffic originating in Bal
timore City with the Washington
ree-way or the Richmond highway,
md will further serve traffic using
,hese routes that desires to enter
Baltimore City and not cross the
Iarbor Bridge.
E. Brooke Lee, Park Commissioner
Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Capital Park
md Planning Commission, is Chair
nan of the Committee on Public Ac-
tivities. The other members of the
Committee who collaborated on the
report are:
Major Ezra B. Whitman, Chair
man of the Md. State Roads Comm;
Nathan L. Smith, Chef Engineer,
Baltimore City; Senator L. Harold
Sothoron, Prince Georges County;
Delegates Charles M. Bandiere and
Albert l.. Sklar of Baltimore City;
Henry P. Irr, Baltimore; Dean J. F.
Pyle, University of Maryland.
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