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The $568-million 12-year high
way program outlined by the
State Roads Commis-
sion contains many projects that
would please Washington area
residents who travel the crowded
Maryland highways.
The report to the Maryland
General Assembly does not give
details of the construction pro-
posed. But some major projects
are mentioned. Most of them have
been discussed previously and
some actually are under construc-
ton. All are designed to make
Maryland's highways among the
best in the Nation.
The Roads Commission report
deals with the State as a whole.
BY next month, the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission will have its 10-year
highway construction program
ready for release. This program is
confined to Montgomery ard
Prince Georges Counties but is re-
ported in agreement with the
Roads Commissions program in
most essential details.
Some Projects Under Way.
Here are some of the highway
projects contemplated in the
Roads Commission report:
The Eastern Shore Expressway
will be a dual highway from the
Chesapeake Bay bridge to the
Delaware State line. It has been
completed from the bridge to
Queenstown, and the next section
to Centreville is under contract.
This expressway ties in with the
Delaware Memorial Bridge route
to New York.
The Baltimore Beltway will be a
route around the bottleneck Of
Baltimore. It will begin outside the
city from the Pulaski Highway
(Route 40 to the east), circle out
side the city limits but through the
metropolitan area, and connect
with the Baltimore Washington
IExpressway on the southwest side
lof town. It is approximately four
lflfths Of a circle around the city.
Route to Bypass ID. e.
The Washington circumferen-
tial route is system of highways
all dual-which eventually will
enable motorists to bypass down
town Washington if they so de-
sire. It also will facilitate getting
from that part of Maryland north
of Washington to that part to
the east and south.
This route comedies with plans
of the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
project for an inter-county free
way. It involves new bridges
across the Potomac River at Alex
andria and Cabin John.
A new U. S. Route IS is con-
templated from Point of Rocks to
the Pennsylvania State line. a dual
highway. This will be the closest
route from Washington to the
Pennsylvania turnpike.
A new U. S. Route lao is planned
from Baltimore to Reisterstown,
also to be dual highway.
U. S. 301 (the Grain highway
from Glen Burnie to the Potomac
River bridge will be made a dual
highway.
A dual highway will be con-
structed on the badly crowded
Edmonston road (Md. Route 205)
from Defense highway Omitted
States Route 50 Berwyn Heights
to tie in with Md. Route 430.
A dual highway will be created
on Central avenue (Md. Route
214 from the District line to
U. S. Route 301.
New Route 40 Planned.
U. S. Route 40 from Baltimore
to the Delaware State line will be
supplemented by an entirely new
Route 40 to the Pennsylvania
State line. It, too, will be a dual
highway.
When Route 40 was completed
just before 1910. it was thought
the four-lane divided highway
would be adequate to handle traf-
f1c for many years beyond 1860.
Today this road, in the opinion Of
the Roads Commission, is inade-
quate to handle safely and ex-
peditiously the traffic now using
it.
Commercial development along
the highway has made it necessary
to consider an entirely new loca-
tion rather than attempt to buy
right of way to provide additional
lanes.
The Washington National Pike,
from Frederick to Washington,
will be extended to the District
line. Preliminary surveys of the
route into the city have been
made. but the actual route has
not ben pinpointed. The pike 10
well under construction.
Baltimore Road Separate.
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The Baltimore Washington Ex-
pressway is not in the 12-year
program. It is expected to be
finished before this program gets
lunder way.