Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
North Virginia Gets
Most Road Money!
CuIpeper Given
1920 Of Total
For D. c. Area
By ALEX r. PRESTON
Star Staff Writer

R1CHMOND, va, Mar. To. -
The Washington Metropolitan
Area got more money than any
other section of Virginia in the
ALLEGATION of $142.8 million in
road funds approved tentatively
today by the State Highway
Commission.
The Culpeper construction
district, one of eight such areas
in Virginia. received 20 per
cent of the total ALLEGATIONS,
most of which are concentrated
in the Washington area. 1t got
more than % per cent of Fed
eral interstate highway funds
which are distributed on the
basis of need.
The ALLEGATIONS, for the fiscal
year beginning July l, will be
made final after public hear
ingS are held May Is and 26
in Roanoke and Richmond, re-
Spectively.
Push Crash Program
All of the Federal interstate
money for the Culpeper district
toalling $l7.9 million is ear
marked for continuing the
crash program on the Capital
BeltWay, Interstate Route 95
which will be a continuation of
the Shirley highway southwark
toward Richmond and for In
terstate Route 66, leading into
Washington from the west.
Highway Commissioner H. H.
Harris said, we've put under
contract more projects than
we've allocated for interstate
work in the Culpeper district"
D. B. Fugate, assistant chief
engineer, said that while the
Sl7.9 million Tor interstate
work is listed for specific
projects in the Washington
area, the designations are flex-
ible and can be rearranged.
The commission allocated $8.7
million of interstate funds to
the Capital Beltway. Mr.. Flu
gate said a crash program is
under way to have at least that
portion of it open as far as
U. S. Route l in Alexandria by
the time the new Woodrow
Wilson Bridge across the Po-
tomac River opens in October.
Interstate Route 95, which
will parallel Route l South
connecting Shirley highway
with the Richmond Petersburg
turnpike, was anocated $50
million for work in Fairfax and
Prince William Counties.
Interstate Route 66 got 81
million for work in Fairfax and
Prince William Counties.
Culpeper Second
The Culpeper district was
second among the eight con-
struction areas in the amount
OF primary construction funds
allocated. Its total of ST. mil
lion was exceeded only by the
Cuffolk district, with $7.3 mil
lion.
Culpeper also was second to
Suffolk in the amount of Fed
eral aid urban funds received
The Northern Virginia area
would get $756,OOO while the
T1dewater section would get
SIS million.
Arlington boulevard would
be widened from four to six
lanes between the Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge, now under
construction, and Court House
road under a Federal urban
ALLEGATION of 100000.
Glebe road would be widened
to four lanes, divided. from
Chain Bridge to North Upland
street under another urban
grant of $174,OOO.
The intersection of Glebe
road and Wilson boulevard
would be channelized and modi-
fled with $4,000 in State pri-
mary highway funds. Another
Arlington project, costing So
600. was listed as widening Of
the culvert at Little Pimmitt
Run near North Edison street.
State funds to be spent in
Fairfax County include widen
ing of Route l between Penn
DaW and Snake Hill, $3.50, 900:
resurfacing Leesburg pike be-
tween Seven Corners and Alex
andria, $40, 900; construction of
an intersection Of Leesburg pike
with the new Dulles Interna-
tional Airport road near Ty-
sons Corner, $130,000.
Also, for continuation of
work on the Mclean bypass Of
Route 1913. $45O,OOO and new
construction on Route % at
Interstate Route Sc, south of
Centreville, $4,000.
OF the total of $142.8 mil
lion, SILT million was for Fed
eral Interstate work through
out the State; SAT million was
for State primary road con-
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