Evening star., 1945-01-05
Postwar Road
Plans Approved
By D. {. Heads
Highwoy Proerom
Coils for Outlay
Of $17,886,000

plans for a new Highway
Bridge, Dupont Circle underpass
and a X street elevated highway
from Key Bridge to Twenty-seventh
street NV, was approved yesterday
by the Commissioners.
Based largely on the Highway
Survey Report of 1941, prepared by
the Highway Department under
Director H. C. Whitehurst.
the local program will be the first
submitted to the Public Roads Ad-
ministration since the passage of
the law. The Federal law provides
for giving States 100000 900 a year
for three years, with the District
and the States matching on $3.50
basis the amount of Federal aid
allotted.
$685., 200 Yearly.
The program approved by the
Commissioners yesterday contem-
plates Federal aid of ST, ,943 900, with
the District supplying a similar
amount. The Federal and District
costs would be $5,962 900 a year.
During the first year, plans call
for starting Klingle Road Bridge
at cost of $3.50, 900; twin spans over
the Potomac to replace the present
Highway Bridge, Sc, 100000 with an
additional 100000 to be spent after
the three-year period; Dupont
Circle underpass, $2,000,000, and the
K street elevated highway, $2,275,-
900.
The Dupont Circle underpass is
the only phase of the $56,000,000
subway plan submitted to the Com
missioners by consulting engineers
last October that appears in the
three-year program. Capt White
hurst has repeatedly said the under
pass could be converted into use for
the suggested Connecticut avenue-G
street subway if at any time sub
ways are approved for the District.
The public hearing on the Dupont
Circle underpass has been scheduled
for 10 am. Monday by the Joint
Board of the Public Utilities Com
mission and Commissioners.
The projected s4,5O0,00 South
Capitol Street Bridge, for which
Congress already has appropriated
s1,750,000, is not included in the
Federal aid program.
Other Jobs Scheduled.
Two other major projects are
scheduled to be started after the
three-year program. They are the
K street depressed highway be-
tween Twenty-first street and Rock
Creek Park. and the trunk highway
plan for K street NV. and NE,
including grade separation project
at Mount Vernon Square. These
would total s8,200,0O0
Other projects to be started in the
first postwar year are paving and
widening of West Virginia avenue
NE, Mount Olivet road and New
York avenue, s139,500 Massachu-
sets avenue NV, Nebraska ave-
nue. to District line, s135 900: Ala
bama avenue Sc, Twelfth to Twen-
ty-first street, s134,000; Alabama
avenue Sc, Twenty-first street to
Good Hope road and Twenty fifth
street, and Alabama avenue to Good
Hope road, s153, 900. and widening M
street Sc, Fourth to Eleventh
streets, $4,000.
Widening Sixth street NV, NJ
street to Rhode Island avenue,
s1l0, 500; Utah avenue and Twenty
seventh street NV, Military road
to Nebraska avenue; Oregon ave-
nue. to Twenty-seventh street,
s1o4,o00 Nichols avenue S.w..
Chesapeake street to Joliet, sS5, 900;
Rock Creek Church road NV,
Hardwood road to North Capt.
tol. $38,500; Mount Olivet road
NE, New York avenue to Bladens-
burg road, $93 800; Tunlaw road and
New Mexico avenue NV, Thirty
ninth street to Nebraska avenue.
$94 900.
Others On List.
Other flrst-year projects include
channelization of the intersection
of Minnesota and Pennsylvania
avenues Sc, $4,000; paving Reno
road NV, Rodman street to Van
Ness street and Yuma street to
Chesapeake street, Davenport street
to Nebraska avenue, $l20.500; paw
ing Sheriff road NE, Minnesota
avenue to District line, s125.OO0:
Forty ninth street, Quarles street
and Minnesota avenue NV, Sheriff
road to Western avenue, SGT 500.
Projects to be started in the sec
ond postwar year follow: Paving
and widening of Alabama avenue
and Bowen road Sc, Pennsylvania
avenue to District line. s18O,500:
Taylor street. Bunker Hill road and
Randolph street, Fourteenth to
Twenty-sixth street NE, $108, 500;
replacement of railroad grade sepa-
ration structure at Riggs road and
Baltimore & Ohio tracks, 100000:
paving Hardwood road NE, Mich
ligan avenue to Taylor street, $l35,-
900: Riggs road, North Capitol
street to District line, S125, 900, and
Weaver street NV, Loughboro road
to Canal road, 100000.
Other second-year construction
work calls for paving Dalecarlia
parkway NV, Loughboro road to
Massachusetts, avenue, $132, 500;
Eastern avenue NV, and NE. New
Hampshire avenue to Laurel street,
$97 500; Porter street NV, Con-
necticut avenue to new Klingle
Road Bridge and from bridge to
Adams Mill road, 5000 1000.
Third-year construction plans are
for widening South Capitol street,
I o street to Canal street, 1920 600:
Kansas avenue NV, Nicholson
street to Eastern avenue, $87 500;
Hardwood road NE, Michigan ave-
nue. to Taylor street, $l35, 900; rail-
road grade separation structure,
Kansas avenue and Baltimore &
Ohio tracks, 100000; paving and
replacement of Fort drive, Oregon
avenue to Thirteenth street, $780,
600, and paving of Fort drive, Mac
Arthur boulevard to Nebraska ave-
nue. NV, $225 900.