Evening star., 1952-11-14
State Officials
Open Five-Ni|e
Route4OLink
Extensions Are Due
To Be Opened Soon
On z Other Rouds
By Alex, R. Preston

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Maryland OH.
cials today opened another stretch
of super-highway to public use
and announced plans for making
parts of two other projects avail
able in the immediate future.
These are the latest develop
mentS:
l. Gov. McKeldin and State
Roads Commission officials cut
ribbons this morning opening an
additional five-mile stretch of
dual-lare, limited-access highway
on Route 40 between Baltimore
and Frederick. This completes
about Is miles of super highway
out of Baltimore and leaves about
IL miles to go.
November 28 Opening.
2. Nearly 10 miles of the new
Annapolis Washington highway
another super thoroughfare-will
be opened on November %. This
portion extends from Parole, just
west of Annapolis, to Route 301,
otherwise known as the Grain
highway.
8. Another six miles of the
Baltimore Washington express
way from Friendship Interna-
tional Airport southwark to JessupI
road will be opened, tentatively
on December 20. This will make
available a little more than 10
miles of the northern end of this
Superhighway to the public.
Washingtonians having business
in downtown Baltimore may find
it easier and faster to turn off
Route l at Waterloo and go into
the city by means of the new link.
4. Roads Commission officials
and Baltimore County commits
sioners have announced agree
ment on the route of the proposed
$39 million limited-access belt
way around Baltimore. This will
give North through traffic
high-speed bypass around
Baltimore between the Washing
ton-Baltimore expressway on the
south to the Pulaski Highway on
the northeast.
These developments came only
two days after gigantic $50 mil
lion, 12-year road construction
plan, designed to add $3.50 miles
of new or reconstructed roads to
the system, were presented to the
Legislative Council. The council
now is weighing the program and
will make recommendations on it
to the General Assembly which
convenes in January.
The projects announced today,
however, were planned earlier and
are not a part of the 12-year
program.
Gov. McKeldin, accompanied by
Chairman Russell H. Mccain and
other Roads Commission officials,
cut the ribbon at the present
terminus of the Route 40 super
highway near the town of Cookies
vile where Morgan road inter-
sectS the route.
Then, the party moved westward
5 miles to open that end of the
highway at the east end of Ridge
vile.
Working for Year.
Work on this link has been 60
Ing on for nearly year and mo-
sorists may now travel for Is miles
out of Baltimore toward Fred
erick on the fast highway. There
are 24-foot roadways in each di-
Fection. divided by a wide park
way.
Route 40 is one of the most i'm
portant segments in Maryland's
current highway overhaul pro-
gram. Surveys already are being
made for the remaining 13 miles
INTO Frederick, and the Roads
Commission hopes to let contracts
next year for at least part of the
remaining section.
Parts of the old route 20 road
oed are 100 years old, having been
opened first as the National pike.
It is narrow, full of humps and
pumps. long hills and sharp turns.
The location of the Baltimore
beltway was agreed upon in a joint
sessions of the State Roads Com
mission and the Baltimore County
Commissioners.
Mr.. Mccain said the dual-lane
artery would be 31.1 miles in
length with landscaping in con-
gested areas and 50-foot parkways
between lanes in rural sections.
The beltway is joint effort of
the commission and Baltimore
County with the latter contribut-
ing $25,000 for each mile to be
built.
Mr.. Mccain said bids would be
invited on a smile section from
Oulaney Valley to Falls road next
spring.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Mccain an
aounced last night that bids have
oeen advertised for the steel su-
perStructure Of new Potomac
River bridge at Brunswick.
Bids for the steel deck, plates
md girders of the superstructure
will be accepted through Sunday.
The 2,425-foot proposed span to
larry State Route II into Virginia,
will cross four main tracks and
even yard tracks of the Baltimore
3 Ohio Railroad. and the old
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal as well
IS the Potomac River.
It will have a 26-foot wide
roadway with 3-foot pedestrian
Ealkways on either side.
Mr.. Mccain said bids will be
lsked later and separately on the
ubstructure, including the con-
,rete roadway, railings and ap-
,roaches. Virginia will construct
approaches at its end of the
bridge.
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