Evening star., 1946-01-20
Plan
Prepared for
Montgomery
Construction Now
Of Northern Parkway
Opposed in Study

A program designed to cope with
present traffic loads and probable flu
ture highway needs in the eastern
area of Montgomery County and at
the same time protect property
values was announced last night by
1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee and Richard
F. Green, Montgomery County mem
bers of the Maryland National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commits
sion. in a preliminary study state
ment.
On the controversial issue of the
proposed Northern Parkway through
Anson street and Alton Parkway,
the study opposed construction in
the immediate future of an express
highway of this type, unless it is
found absolutely necessary.
The only possible visible express
highway route that may enter the
Silver Spring area, the commission
ers stated, would be an entirely new
route which in future years may be
built along the western side of Rock
Creek Park northward to Western
avenue, northeast toward Sixteenth
street ands the District line, thence
northward .toWard Westminster and
northeast toward Baltimore via the
Columbia pike route.
Want Routes Continued.
All of the routes now in exist
ence through the Silver Spring area
are planned surface highways and
seem entitled to be continued in
their present general form as a log
lcal and continuing extension in
Maryland of the adjacent District
highway system, the commissioners
wrote. For this reason we do not
believe that it is justified to plan or
build depressed express highway
routes through the Silver Spring
area and the already developed sub
urban residential communities to
the north and northeast of Silver
Spring the commissioners stated.
In our opinion. highway improve
ment and purposed highway routes
should be kept on the present Level
OF road circulation and be of the
present general type of highway now
existing within these areas"
Studies, under way for the past
l8 months, indicate the following
program will be recommended for
future highway construction:
Widening and improvement of the
Colesville pike into a four-lane
highway from the entrance of the
Indian Spring Golf Club to the fork
of the Colesville pike and the
Laurel road at White Oak.
II funds are available, widening
OF Georgia avenue to a four lane
highway from the north end of the
Silver Spring business district to
the fork of Georgia avenue and
Viers Mill road, a third of a mile
south of Wheaton.
Extend Western Avenue.
Extension of Western avenue
from its present terminus. immedi-
ately southwest of Rock Greek. to
Sixteenth street at the District line.
Northern extension of Sixteenth
street through the Falkland Apart
ment project to follow the Colum-
bia boulevard route under the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad and into
Georgia avenue at Montgomery
Hills or North Woodside.
Extension of the Columbia boule-
ward route from North Woodside
or Moptpopoery ujlIc ,or+l,,,a,+ 80
Northwood Park. across the north
west branch of the Anacostia River
to White Oak.
AS reserve and future roate,
the immediate acquisition of the
rlght-of-way of the proposed Lin
den-Forest Glen route to a width
OF $50 feet, the property to be &C
quired from a part of the proceeds
of the present $5,000,00O county
bond authorization.
Want Wide Rights Way.
Acquisition of the rights-of- way.
$50 feet wide, in this last location
Will allow the requirements of fu-
ture development of an express
highway, along the west side of
| Rock Creek, to determine whether
the route shall be built on the
present level of existing road sys-
tenn or as a depressed express high
way. Continuation of this route
along the east side of the B. g. O.
Railroad, the Commissioners con-
tend, will solve the traffic problems
of the Capital View section and be
an important part of the develop
ment OF the frontages of the B. &
o. Railroad, south of Rockville, for
light industry.
Clarence c. Keiser, who was ap-
pointed last October as a third
member of the commission from
Montgomery County, participated in
only one of the several dozen meet
ings that have been held incident
to the study and discussion of these
routes and consequently did not
| join in the statement.