Evening star., 1953-01-23
Maryland Road Plan
Gives Top Priority 10
Silver Spring Link
By Alex R. Preston

Md1 y 1oAIO . PAOPOoC0 4SyCoA
highway construction program
would place the extension of
Sixteenth street from East West
highway to Georgia avenue on
its list of highest priority prof.
ects in Montgomery County.
There are IA projects listed in
the State Roads Commissions
secondary road program which
would be completed within the
first four-year phase Of the 12-
year program. All but three of
these projects are within the
Bethesda Chevy Chase silver
Spring area. The others are in
rural areas.
Projects Listed.
Among the other secondary
projects given equally high pri-
ority:
Build divided highway on Old
Georgetown road from Bank of
Bethesda to Bells Mill road at
Beane.
Widen and resurface Dale
drive and Seminary road from
Forest Glen road to Plney Branch
road. Silver Spring.
Acquire rights-of-way along
Bradley boulevard from Leland
street in Chevy Chase to Hill
mead
The Roads Commission. which
this week submitted it's $3.50 mil
lion program to the General AS
sembly for approval. would con-
struct or improve 35.4 miles of
roads costing $6,784,O0 in the
first four years of its secondary
highways program for Montgom-
cry County.
The Sixteenth street extern
sion was recommended in a re-
cent Washington Metropolitan
Area Transportation Study.
Although the improvement is
only 6 mile in length, it would
draw much of the traffic away
from the busy Georgia avenue
Colesville road intersection in
the heart of Silver Spring.
The Roads Commission would
spend 100000 to build two "a
foot lanes with q 12-foot median
strip dividing them and for a
bridge across the B. & O..trackS.
Old Georgetown Road.
The Old Georgetown road
project would extend 3.5 miles
from Wisconsin avenue in Be-
thesda and would cost 81. 1926, 900.
The present width of the pave
ment is 20 feet. The roadway
would be made into two 34-foot
lanes separated by a 14-foot
strip on a 100-foot right-of-way.
The Dale drive-Seminary road
project would run 80 miles
through Silver Spring and would
cost $670, 900. The Is and 36
foot pavementS between Forest
Glen road and Piney Branch
road would be widened to "A feet
the entire distance.
The Bradley boulevard project
from Chevy Chase indicates
where at least a part of the
Washington belt highway may
travel. The Roads Commission
lists the 2-mie-long Bradley
boulevard project as beginning
at Leland street and ending at
the Proposed Circumferential
Highway"
Accompanying maps show the
project as ending at Hillmead
and the circumferential route as
passing through an area between
Hillmead and Woodhaven. Roads
Commission engineers emphasize.
however, that where rightS-of-
way are to be acquired for new
roads, such as the circumferen-
tial route, the exact routing can
not be determined from the
maps.
Bradley Boulevard.
The Bradley boulevard project
would cost $1,335, 900 in the first
four-year phase for rights-of- :
way, engineering and construc-
ton of one 34-foot lane and a
one-lane bridge over the B. & o.
Railroad. In the second phase
Of the 12-year program, Bradley
boulevard would be widened to "a
feet to Macarthur boulevard and
in the final four-year period q
second 34-foot lane and railroad
bridge would be built from
Leland street to Hilimead.
Here are other secondary road
projects scheduled for the first
phase of the construction pro-
gram in Montgomery County: !,
Resurface Flower avenue be-
| tween Piney Branch road and