Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-08-10
Action Is Near
On Maryland
Road Program
70 Projects Listed
As Urgent by
State Commission
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 1O.-The
State Road Commission is about
70 get a $24 million running start
on Maryland's mammoth new
highway building program.
It has designated rs projects
at least one in each county
FOR "Ursent and immediate &C
ton"
1t hopes to be able to ask
contractors to bid Oh the first
Of them in the next four or five
weeks.
Report Due soon.
It hopes many of them Will be
under contract by the first of
the year.
Time is Of the csseA Gee" said
William F.. Childs, jr., he COM
Missions chief engineer, when he
issued instructions for quick
handling Of the 70 projects.
He asked his seven division en-
gineerS to report which of the 70
could be tackled first, and then
work on the ones that require
more complicated preliminarieS-
blleprintS rad right-of-way buy
ms.
The reports probably will start
rolling in this week.
Then, Mr.. Childs instructed his
subordinateS. the projects will be
put up for bids in a sequence that
Will start highway work hum
mlnr in all sections Of the State
a. soon rs possible.
The 78 urgent projects con-
template the oVerhauIing of
about $50 miles Of road, at an ex-
pccted cost of about $22 million.
The Roads Commission already
is at the advertised-for-bids
Sta sc or beyond on another IT
projects in which another IS
miles of highway will be built
or rebuilt for almost So million.
First Construction Begun.
The first construction work
began laSr week Oh the 12-year,
1868 million pI ogram which the
General ASS mbly authorized
last April.
The first JOB to get under way
was the reSurfacIng and WIDEN
ing Of RltChie highway from the
north edge of Glen Burnie down
20 the Mountain road intersec-
ton.
Beyond the urgent 79, the
commission alreadv is well along
on the preliminalies for several
major projects such as those on
the Washington National Pike
from Frederick into Washington
and the Baltimore National Pike
from Baltimore 70 Frederick.
Most of the rs are relatively
simple projectS-the resurfacing,
The widening, Or the resurfacing
and widening of existing roads.
They do not require complicated
engineer ing and involve few if
any rlght-of-way problems.
The county by county list in
cludeS:
Baltimore County.
Alternate U. s. Poute Re
surface 800 miles of the old
We shington-Baltimole boulevard
from the Baltimore City line to
Rolling load, $4,000.
Montgomery County.
Washir gton Ma iona pike
Build 375 miles of new dual
highway from Clarkslurg inter-
change to Maryland 113 at
Brink, $2,393,0O0.
Maryland 28-Widen to "a feet
and resurface l mile through
Rockville, $4,000.
Maryland 81 - Modify curves,
widen to "a feet md reSurface
$50 miles from WASHINGTON Ma
tlonal pike toward Damascus,
$3.50
Maryland 586-Widen to 48
feet and reSurfaCe the SGT miles
from Maryland 81 to Rockville.
Maryland 194-Rcsurface O.9
of a mile on Flower avenue from
Maryland 800 to Maryland sic,
$4,000.
Maryland 800 Resurface the
0.2 of a mile from Secc nd avenue
to Georgia avenue, $4,000.
Maryland 28-ReS urface the
1922 miles from Frederick
County line to Jamestown and
widen TIE Seneca Greek bridge,
$466,OO0.
Maryland 515-Grade should
ers on the 1.12 miles from Silver
Spring to North WoodSIde, $751;
600.
Prince Georges County.
Maryland 200-Resurface the
Is miles from Maryland 214 to
Maryland 4, $4,000.
Maryland 403-Resurface the
051 miles from Maryland 500 to
u. S. /, $4,000.
Maryland 412-Resurface the
104 miles from U. S. l to Mary
land 205, $4,000.
Maryland 430 - Widen part
and reSurface all of the 1.66
miles from U. S. l to Maryland
205, $125,000.