Evening star., 1952-02-27
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Creek parkway and extend II 70
Maryland. About improvement
there ID little controversy. but the
extension idea promises fireworks
The present parkway Ia toe
crowded. on this, everybody
agrees. Augmenting II ID the flrSi
step the city proposes. That would
cost about 81 million,
Obliterated incidentally, would
DO the "P Street Beach," T'ht
planners, at least. are prepared
Tor the sacrifice,
A bottleneck now stands ut thu
parkwayS top. That's the Zoo
Everybody agrees on that problem
The plan 10 10 extend the park
way around II. In
The remainder contains the hre.
works. The planners want TO push
on 10 Maryland, doubling the
parkway's present length. with
The Zoo bypass, this would cosI
over N20 million.
There are also plans for n re-
vainped Military road across tht
park, costing eb,S million. About
this there's no dispute.
Biggest District Project.
All told, this project would sot
up more than 4 fourth Of the city,
proposed i0syeaF, ei40 million
road Improvement expenditure
It's one OF The biggest road prof.
eets IN washington history
f'omoFr0W The Star Will outline
the Zoo part OF The plan, and F'rl.
day The upper extension Idea VIII
be dealt with, F0day's subject "A
the present parkway, from tht
Lincoln Memorial 70 Calvert street
The hPst trouble with the paFhu
way now IA that it's net q parkway
In the modern sense! Modern
pAFAWays are divided H0gk Greek
parkway IA m0stlV 0 AlnGle read
True, ltis fairly wide, but lt'l
not wide enough for the tPafile
And that causes q special trouble
reversing heWA,
During the morning rush hour
the road IA 9nesway south, Dur
lnR tho rush hour Rt night, W.
ane-Way north, The rest OF the
time, lt'a both ways, Mat0Flatl
can't he blamed for confusion,
Exlt Headaches,
Entrances and exits are another
headache, Calvert street has q
steep hill, and at the top, eompet'
Ing tFafIie. Calvert and Conneeti-
cut traflie flows conflict at the bot.
tom, WateFside dFive-the Massa.
|chusetts avenue links too mar
row; IL has q tortuous turn at thu
top. p streets curving entrances
discourage use, So do X streets
with no easy access from the free
way. And at Virginia avenue, ex-
cept at rush hours, there are an
tagonistic traft1c flows,
All this limits the parkway
usefulness, as well as frayinG
motorists nerves.
What the planners want 10 q
separated six-lane dual parkway
everywhere. permanently one-way
with easier access and exit. 81
here, starting at Calvert. Is whats
proposed:
Woodley road, hilly entrance.
exit at the Shoreham Hotel, woult
be replaced. Twenty-fourth stree,
would be cut under Calvert to thu
parkway, cne-way In. Cathedrn
avenue would become one-waS
out. Traffic entering Twenty.
fourth could so either direction OF
the parkway--Y1orth through tht
Zoo. or south. CWoodley might bt
retained as en- extra entrance onlS
for convenience Of residents.)
Calls for Overpass.
An overpass would take north
bound traffie onto Cathedral.
The present parkway would bI
widened and divided from thil
point to below the Massachusetts
avenue bridge.
Waterside drive would cease n
be the Massachusetts, avenue link
Replacing u would be dual con-
neetions with N0Flnahst0he drive
which parallels Massachusetts, OF
the north, N0fmAnst0fie e0hneetI
with fulton street, which e0nneetl
with important T'hlrty'feuFtt
street,
Near this point would begin
bFahdsEeW sellthb0und Roadway
70 would pasg through On unused
AFohwav Of the q atFeet bridge
under p street, ever a. new bEldgI