Evening star., 1952-12-14
rs Major Projects for Highways
Listed for Nearby Virginia

the short section between North
Lynn street and Fort Myer drive,
which would be widened to six
lanes. the rest of the project would
be widened to four lanes.
From the point where Old
Dominion drive meets Lee High
way. to Military road, Lee High
way would proceed over the pres
ent course of Old Dominion drive.
The two w. & o. D. Railroad
bridges in Cherrydale would be
rebuilt, traffic channelizing in
stalled at the intersections of
Spout Run Parkway, Military road.
Old Dominion drive, Glebe road
and North Roosevelt street. Cost:
! 1850, 900.
Part two calls for grade separa-
ton at the juncture with Wash
Iington Memorial parkway and
channelizing at the western
terminal of the Lee Highway pro-
ject. Cost: $350,000.
Falls Church By-Pass-Fairfax
Drive, twin project. part one con-
struction of which would run from
the aforementioned west termin-
al of the Lee Highway project
parallel to the w. & o. D. Rail-
road to Shreve road and on to in
tersect Lee Highway near Merri-
field. Four 12-foot lanes. channel
izing at Alexandria -Leesburg turn
pike and a bridge over the rail-
road at Shreve road. Cost:
$2,81O,O00.
Fairfax drive portion of the
project is part two construction.
and extends the present drive
from it's terminal just west of
Glebe road to Lee highway at
the northeast outskirts of Falls
Church. Four lanes. railroad
underpass just west of Glebe road
grade separations at both Patrick
Henry drive and North Roosevelt
street and channelizations at the
west terminus, Washington boule-
ward and a point near Patrick
Henry drive where a propose6
Arlington Mill drive would inter-
sect. Cost: SIG million.
Lee Highway, that part, of which
now goes through Falls Church
to Merrifield, also would be i'm
proved as a corollary to the above
joint project: widened to four
lanes, with channelizing at Hill
wood avenue. A part two project.
Cost: $1.475.000.
Key Bridge Connections, a new
road roughly parallel to Washing
ton Memorial parkway would
branch off jeff Davis highway at
Arlington boulevard, curve to the
south outskirts of Rosslyn ant'
split into two parts, one alon"
North Lynn street (for two-way
traffic., the other along North
Moore street (one-way SOUTH. AT
the Virginia end of Key Bridge.
traffic would be channelized and
a new roadway swung to the west
to connect with Washington Me-
mortal parkway. There would be
grade separations at that point
and at the approach to the pro-
posed E Street Bridge. Road
widths would average four lanes.
Traffic would be channelized at
the intersections of Wilson boule-
ward with North Moore and North
Lynn streets. A first part project
costing $740,000.
Washington Memorial Parkway
yorktown Boulevard, a part two
plan to extend the parkway from
South Run parkway to Chain
Bridge road north of the bridge,
and installing the Yorktown
boulevard link between the park
way and Military road near DON
aldson Run. Four lanes all the
way. with grade separations on
Washington parkway at Spout
Run parkway. Yorktown boule-
ward and Chain Bridge approach.
Cost: $240.000.
Glebe Road IVA. Route 1907,
from Washington Memorial park
way to jeff Davis highway. Part
one: Widen to four lanes those
narrow portions between Lee
highway and Washington boule-
ward, and Wilson boulevard and
Columbia pike. This includes
channelizing at Lee highway and
the point where new Glebe road
would connect with Davis high
way, and a grade separation at
Arlington boulevard. Cost: ST.
$4,000.
! Part two: Widening from Davis