Evening star., 1954-01-13
Civil Defense
Road Network
Is Designated
IA Highways
Within District
To Be Marked

The District Commissioners
have established a network Of n
Civil Defense highways within
the city to be used in case Of
an emergency.
In adopting the network sug-
gested by Traffic Director George
E. Keneipp yesterday. the city
heads also amended the traffic
regulations to allow the hating
Of all traffic during a Condition
Red" warning. Condition Red is
the period Immediately following
the sounding of an enemy at
tack warning.
The Commissioners plan to
mark the routes with special
signs. Funds must be found for
this, purpose. however. The routes
will tie in with similarly desig-
mated roads in Maryland and
Virginia. some of which already
are marked by signs.
Vehicles Must Halt.
Under the regulations, when
an attack occurs, all vehicles
must stop and people must seek
shelter. Vehicles must be pulled
to the curb. Double parking will
be permitted as long as two 10
foot lanes are left clear on the
Civil Defense network roads.
On other streets, a single To-.
foot lane must be left clear.
The highway network consists
OF three military roads, IL Civil
Defense roads. 10 evacuee roads
and 49 streets feeding into these
major routes.
The military roads, which will
be reserved for the movement of
military vehicles, are Route 240.
Route l and Suitland Parkway.
Civil Defense Roads.
The IL Civil Defense roads will
be reserved for the movement
OF Civil Defense vehicles and fcr
the armed forces. They are:
Beginning at NJ street NV. Wis.,
consin avenue to the District line
BEGINNING at Dupont Circle NV.
MASSACHUSETTS, avfAue. Forty-sixth street
Beginning at Scott circle NV. Six
avenue to the District line. ~
Ninth Street. e'nstisrssn shsqsn avenue. sysnu:
New Hampshire avenue. Missouri avenue
and Risss road to the District line.
Beginning at stanton Square. Mary.
the District line.
Bssinning at Eleventh street Sc.
rosG se s AaGsR nsses @
s-W. South Capitol street to the Dis
BEGINNING at Lincoln SQUARE, North
street Oklahoma avenue. Benning road
and Central avenue to the District
Beginning at Thomas Circle. Four
teenth street and the Highway Bridge
Besinnins as Constitution Avenue.
to the District line uncludess the road
Bridge TO the District line.
BEGINNING at South. Capitol street.
Sultland Parkway to the District line.
The 10 evacuee roads are des-
ignated to handle the evacuation
of people from disaster areas
within the city to evacuee assem-
bly, areas. They are:
Beginning at Thirty-filth street NV.
Canal road and Chain Bridge to the
Beginning at Canal road NV, Foxhall
road and Macarthur boulevard to the
District line.
Beginning at Independence avenue
SW., Seventeenth street and ConStitu-
tion avenue to the District lire.
Besinning at New York avenue NV,
Thirteenth street and Piney Branch road
to the District line.
Beginning at Park place NV, Mich.
igan avenue to the District line.
.Begi1ning at Scott Circle NV, Rhode
Island avenue to the District line.
Beginning at Benning road NV,
Kenilworth avenue to the District line.
Beginning at Nichols avenue Sc. Good
Hope road and Naylor road to the Dis
trict line.
Beginning at the south end of the
Eleventh Street Bridge. Nichols avenue
tc the District line.
=, BEGINNING, az Missouri avenue NV,
New Hampshire avenue to the District
line.