Evening star., 1947-01-22
Road Network LEADING
To City Is Planned by
Alexandra, Arlington


Future highways to funnel traffic
into the District over bridges which
will span the Potomac already exis
on the maps of planners IN Arling'
ton and Alexandria.
Details were brought out yester'
day at the third meeting of the
City Planning Commission of the
Washington Board of Trade wher
representatives of nearby Virginia
planning groups sketched their fu-
ture area development plans.
Speaking for Alexandria were
Leroy Peabody, chairman of the
City Planning Commission, ano
c. L. Watkins, city engineer. Rep
resenting Arlington were Col. Chris
topher B. Garnett, County Plan
ming Commission chairman, and
c. L. Kinnier, planning engineer
Spokesman for Fairfax was T. j
Stockton, planning engineer.
Second Street Terminus.
Alexandria plans to use Second
street as the terminus for proposed
bridge linking the city with the
District at Shepherds Point, Mr.
Watkins said. The project, he de-
clared, depends largely on the Fed
eral Government, since the District
end of the bridge would be in the
proposed Anacostia River Parkway.
On the maps for the future Ar
linqton are Williamsburg highway
and Greenbrier street which would
connect the bridgesto be constructed
above the present Chain Bridge and
between Chain and Key bridges.
williamsburg highway, Mr.. Kinnier
said, will connect with proposed
highway skirting the city OF Alex
andria on the west. The latter
is in the plans for Alexandria, fu-
ture development.
Alexandria, chief problem, ac-
cording to Mr.. Watkins, is to provide
north and south roads. He said the
city is served by the Mt. Vernon
Memorial highway and United States
Route /, both of which run north
and south. He said the State plans
to widen Route / from the bridge
over Potomac Yards north to the
Arlington County line at Four Mile
Run. .'
GIebe Road to Be Widened.-
Also planned, he said, is the
widening and realignment Of Glebe
road from Route 1 to the Shirley
highway, Just over the line in Alex
andria. Mr.. Kinnier brought out
that the State already has ear
marked funds for work on Glebe
road from that point to Columbia
pike.
Another important connection Mr.
Watkins declared, is King street
road. This highway, an extension
of King street, the city's busiest
east-west street, will be widened to
the Darlington section, he said. The
work is planned for the immediate
future, he added.
A survey of Alexandria's down
town" parking problems is now being
made, Mr.. Watkins said.
State Funds Available.
MI. Kinnier told the group State
funds have been set aside for the
development of Fairfax drive, which
will become one of the county's main
internal streets. He termed Lee
boulevard the most important high
way in the county.
The network IL roads constructed
by the Federal Government, Mr.
Kinnier said, certainly put us on
the map"
The George Washington Memorial
parkway, planned \ to follow the
Potomac to Great Falls in Fairfax
County, is expected to be a very
great asset to Arlington County,
Mr.. Kinnier declared.
Arlfngton's plans for Fairgrounds
are "up-to-date," Mr.. Kinnier said
but he added that the playground
movement" is far behind. The county
plans SO Fairgrounds by 1865, he
said.
Zoning in Fairfax County.
Mr.. Stockton declared that three
fourths of Fairfax County is still
rural and many Of the residents
"do not realize the need for appro-
priations for zoning and planning.
He said a zoning commission was
set up in 1888 and Zoning plan
was adopted in 1941. The most i'm
portant matter in this connection at
present, he said, is survey to de-
termine what the population growth
of the county is going to be.
All highways and roads in the
county are maintained by the State,
Mr.. Stockton said. He said no new
roads are planned for the immedi-
ate future, except the Shirley high
way, on which work is now under
way.
An immediate highway project, he
said, will be the channelization OF
roads at Seven Corners, at the town
limits of Falls Church. He said