Evening star., 1946-08-28
S630,885 Road
Program Voted
In Montgomery
$65, 900 U. S. Funds
Are Anticipated in
30-MiIe Projects

A comprehensive road improve
ment program to cost $500 1886 was
approved yesterday by the Mont
gomery County Commissioners.
OF this amount, $565. 1856 will be
paid by bond issue while the re-
naming s65,OOo represent antici-
pated Federal funds
Projects include in the program.
affecting more than 80 miles of
roads, and the length and estimated
cost of each were listed by the board
as follows:
Bowie's Mill road from State road
us to State road 108. 81 miles, $780,
600; Comus and GAINESVILLE streets
from Thompson's Corner to Comus.
l.3 miles, $4,000.
Jerusalem road from State road
l09 to State road %, Is miles. S15.-
700; le-Clarksburg road from
State road 1913 to the end of the
present macadam finish, 12 miles,
$4,000.
Horners lane between Avery road
and LofStrands factory, 900 feet.
$4,000; Mullinix Mill road between
State road 108 and the Howard
County line, 81 miles, $4,000.
$1,000 for 800 Feet.
Fairfax road from Bradley boule-
ward north for a distance of 300
1eet, $1,000; Ellsworth drive from
Fenton street to Dale drive 400 feet,
$4,000; Cedar lane from Wisconsin
avenue to Saul road, IL miles.
$27,5O0.
Seven Locks road between River
road and Bradley boulevard. 13
miles, $l4,5O0; Cedar lane from the
Baptist Home to the WMAL trans
mlttlng station, IL miles, $4,000.
GAINESVILLE road from Barnesville to
Dlckerson, 81 miles, $25 900: Goshen
road between Goshen and Gathers
burg, 81 miles, S21, 900.
River road from the end of the
present macadam finish west of
Potomac to Watts Branch, 2 miles.
Sl10,000,. and from Watts Branch
to State road 421, is miles, $40. 900.
Barnesville road from State road
lO9 to .Dlckerson, % miles, $24, 900:
Whlteman-Prather road from the
Gaithersburg- Goshen road to coun-
ty road 1-32, Is miles, $4,000.
County road loop from county
road 5-146 to county road 5-I46
south of the Norwood -Colesville
road, q of mile, $500: Kemp
Mil road from State road 1873 south
for g miles, $4,000.
Kent street between Capitol View
and kensington, one-half mile.
$4,000; Boyd's State road from the
end OF the present macadam finish
toward told Germantown, / mile,
$4,000; Choppers road from Choppers
tdahe end Of the present macadam
finish. I6 miles, s25, 900. +
Overpass Approaches. /
Washington Grove overpass ap-
proaches, 450 feet, $4,000; Derwood
overpass approaches, 400 feet, 81, ,625:
Henderson avenue, 800 feet, $323O:
roads in veterans housing project
at the Washington Missionary Col.
lege, Takon1a Park, 1900 feet, $3.50:
roads In the Linden veterans hous-
ing project, 1000 feet, $4,000, and in
the Sligo Park veterans housing
project, 5000 feet, $14,53O.
Sections of Slidell road in the
Clarksburg election district, $4,000;
short sections of other county roads
which have been relatively impas-
sable in winter months, $50, 900; por-
tions of the East-West highway in
Takoma Park, including Ethan Allen
avenue from the Prince Georges
County line to Carroll avenue, Den
wood avenue and Philadelphia ave-
nue. between Carroll avenue and
Piney Branch road, $4,000. and
other roads in parts of the Eastern
suburban district and Colesville
election district, $35 900.