Evening star., 1946-09-09
Executive Avenue
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street after the official car. Report
ers tried to catch the driver, missed
him and sent serDs. apseph oster-
man, traffic division motorcycle man,
racing after the unwilling visitor.
Sergt Osterman did not succeed,
however.
Workmen were still putting the
finishing touches 6f1 a'flew traffic
signal at the southeast acorner .of
East Executive avenue and Penn
sylvania avenue when the horde of
officials and the press showed up
for the official reopening East Ex-
ecutive avenue now can be used by
traffic streams going in either direc-
ton and is expected to take much
of the traffic burden of the busy
intersection of Fifteenth street and
New York avenue.
Multifold approval was required
before today's reopening became q
reality. Officially, the reopening
was recommended by Treasury Sec
retary Snyder, and approval was
granted by President Truman As
early as August 20, the District
Commissioners had approved re-
opening of the avenue upon the
recommendation of Mr. Keneipp
but matters had been at a stand
still until Star editorial was
published August "a.
Pedestrians also began using East
Executive as short cut to the
south side of the White House. and |
within five minutes of the reopen
ing, sightseers were peering through |
the White Houses iron fence at the
east entrance of the presidential |
mansion. During the war, pedes-
trians as we'll as motorists were
banned from the block-long street
which separates the White House
from the Treasury building.
West Executive avenue, separating
the White House from the State
Department, still remains closed to
traffic, as it has been since the war
began. West Executive, under Secret
Service jurisdiction, is used for
White House and State Department
parking. No plans for its reopen
ing have been announced.
Traf1ic regulations will forbid
parking at any time on East Execu-
tive avenue Motorists travelling
east on Pennsylvania avenue will
be permitted to make right turns
into East Executive, procedure eX-
pected to relieve congestion caused
by the large number of vehicles
which habitually make left turns
into Pennsylvania at rush hours
from Madison place, one block west
OF the re-opened street.
Meanwhile, traffic engineers plan
to keep a watchful eye on the newly
created intersection to determine
how pedestrian traffic on the south
side OF Pennsylvania avenue is af-
fected. Oficials feel that habitual
users of the south Pennsylvania
avenue sidewalk may have become
too used to crossing East Executive
avenue without watching for cars.
Just before the ceremony, District
trafic oficials were guests of Mr.
Sorkin at a special preview of the
new highway safety picture, High
way Mania at Keith's Theater.
More than 100 rookie policemen,
traffic officers, officials Of the De-
partment of Trafic and Motor We
hicles, and others interested in traf-
flc safety, attended the preview. Mr.
Keneipp characterized the film as
"an excellent picture"
The picture. which will be shown
at Keith's beginning Wednesday
points out that traf1c regulations
and driving requirements are diff
ferent in practically every State and
reveals that some States do not
even require motorists to pass a
driving test.
The picture. one of the This Is
America" series, was Photographic
, partly in Washington and shows a
, District trafiic officer giving a jay.
walking ticket to a girl pedestrian
) caught walking across Thirteenth
! street ut r street against the traf'
: &c signals. ~