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avenue to Fourteenth street, $780,
900. This is under construction.
27. Build the Southwest Free
way, Fourteenth street bridge to
South Capitol street. including a
bridge across Washington Channel
with connections to Twelfth, F
and G streets-$23,6 $4,000. An
essential part of the long-range
thoroughfare plan which should
be given top priority, said the
consultants.
%. Channilize Folger Park and
widen North Carolina avenue.
Cost included in 27.
80. Build a ramp from the
Whitehurst Freeway south onto
Rock Greek parkway-$291 900.
This project is open to question as
it would encourage additional traf
fic through Potomac Park, said the
consultants.
80. Channelize Rosslyn Plaza to
connect with proposed one-way
streets-$64,0O0.
81. Widen Washington end of
Key Bridge and remove streetcar
tracks-$140.000.
80. Repave M street from
Twenty ninth to Thirty sixth
street NV, removing streetcar
Itracks-$188 900.
Group III.
Future Improvement of radial
routes and creation of new ones
to divert traffic from them.
80. Build an E street bridge
across the Potomac River-$14,-
100000. Opposed by the con-
Sultants.
"a. Extend North Capitol street
through the Soldiers Home and
make it q dual highway from
Louisiana avenue north. connect
ing with a rebuilt Blair road
and Eastern avenue - $500, 900.
Streetcar tracks would be re-
moved between Massachusetts and
Michigan avenues.
IS. Build bus-bays on Connecti-
cut avenue from Calvert street to
Western avenue-$253, 900.
So. Build bus-bays on Sixteenth
street NV. from K street to
Alaska avenue-$31O,000.
81. Rebuild Rhode Island ave-
nue. as dual highway from Con-
necticut avenue to Eastern ave-
nue., removing streetcar line
So .682 900.
38. Rebuild Michigan avenue as
q dual highway between Fourth
street to Brookland avenue and
Tenth street to Eastern avenue,
and widen Sargent road from
Michigan to Eastern avenue
$4,000. Includes removal of
streetcar line.
80. Widen New Hampshire.
Sherman and Vermont avenues
from Grant Circle to Twelfth
street-$924,0O0.
40. Build Washington Circle
underpass in line of K street, and
service roadwayS on both sides of
K street from Connecticut avenue
to Twenty-f1rst street NV
1892 100000
Al. Build an elevated eastbound
roadway along the south side of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
from Foxhall road to the White
hurst Freeway, making the present
Canal road one-way westbound-
So, 1851 900. Construction on the
north side of the canal should
be considered instead, said the
consultants.
42. Build a dual parkway through
Archbold-G Glover Park connecting
Canal road with Wisconsin and
Nebraska avenues-$3, ,625, 900.
43. Rebuild Rock Creek park
way from Constitution avenue
to Connecticut avenue, closing
Waterside drive, providing new
connections with Normanstone
drive, Twenty-second, Twenty
third and Twenty-sixth streets,
and making the present parkway
permanently one-way southbound
and a new section one-way north
bound-$6,908,000. Such improve
ment seems essential, said the
consultants, but they urged care
to hold damage to the park to a
minimum. Connection of T street
with the parkway also was
suggested.
a. Widen Twenty-second street
from Virginia avenue to Massa-
chusetts avenue and Twenty third
street from K to N street. keeping